§. Sect. 1 Of the things generally re∣quired in the second Com∣mandement.
WEE haue shewed that the first Commandement requireth, that wee serue and worship Iehouah, the onely true God. In the three other Commandements of the first Table, is shewed how he is to be worshipped, and the time when. The manner of his worship is, how hee is to be serued in his so∣lemne and set seruice, required in the second Commandement, or how he is to be glorified at all times in the whole course of our liues in the third. The time when hee is principally to bee worshipped, is vpon his Sabbaths, required in the fourth Commandement. In the second Commandement, God requireth that we worship him the true God, after a right and lawfull manner, and by such meanes as are agreeable to his nature, and which in his Word hee hath prescribed vnto vs, vnto which wee ought not to adde, from which wee ought not to detract any thing, as hath before beene shewed. For this is our reasonable ser∣uice, to worship so great a God, not after our owne phantasies, but ac∣cording to his owne will, and with such a seruice in which hee delight∣eth. Now hee delighteth in such a worship as is agreeable to his na∣ture; which being spirituall and true, yea Trueth it selfe, it fol∣loweth, that wee must worship him by spirituall and true meanes, and after a spirituall and true manner, that is, wee must conforme all the seruice which wee offer vnto God, according to the prescript rule of his Word. And thus wee are to worship God, both inwardly with our soules, and outwardly with our bodies; Priuately by our selues, in our families, and publiquely in the congregation, in which wee are to performe all our seruice, with vnanimitie and ioynt affecti∣on, as if wee all worshipped God with one heart and minde; and with vniformity in all outward rites and actions, as if wee had all but one bo∣dy. Contrariwise, the Lord in this Commandement, forbiddeth both the contempt and neglect of his worship, which is the sinne of