Westminster Larger Catechism

The sins forbidden in the second commandment are, all devising,⁵²⁹ counselling,⁵³⁰ commanding,⁵³¹ using,⁵³² and anywise approving, any religious worship not instituted by God himself;⁵³³ tolerating a false religion; the making any representation of God, of all or of any of the three persons, either inwardly in our mind, or outwardly in any kind of image or likeness of any creature whatsoever;⁵³⁴ all worshipping of it,⁵³⁵ or God in it or by it;⁵³⁶ the making of any representation of feigned deities,⁵³⁷ and all worship of them, or service belonging to them,⁵³⁸ all superstitious devices,⁵³⁹ corrupting the worship of God,⁵⁴⁰ adding to it, or taking from it,⁵⁴¹ whether invented and taken up of ourselves,⁵⁴² or received by tradition from others,⁵⁴³ though under the title of antiquity,⁵⁴⁴ custom,⁵⁴⁵ devotion,⁵⁴⁶ good intent, or any other pretence whatsoever;⁵⁴⁷ simony;⁵⁴⁸ sacrilege;⁵⁴⁹ all neglect,⁵⁵⁰ contempt,⁵⁵¹ hindering,⁵⁵² and opposing the worship and ordinances which God hath appointed.⁵⁵³