Westminster Larger Catechism

The duties required in the second commandment are, the receiving, observing, and keeping pure and entire, all such religious worship and ordinances as God hath instituted in his Word;⁵¹⁸ particularly prayer and thanksgiving in the name of Christ;⁵¹⁹ the reading, preaching, and hearing of the Word;⁵²⁰ the administration and receiving of the sacraments;⁵²¹ church government and discipline;⁵²² the ministry and maintainance thereof;⁵²³ religious fasting;⁵²⁴ swearing by the name of God;⁵²⁵ and vowing unto him;⁵²⁶ as also the disapproving, detesting, opposing all false worship;⁵²⁷ and, according to each one’s place and calling, removing it, and all monuments of idolatry.⁵²⁸