The Regulative Principles of Worship

[Nonson]

-THE REGULATIVE PRINCIPLE OF WORSHIP-
...the acceptable way of worshipping the true God is instituted by himself, and so limited by his own revealed will, that he may not be worshipped according to the imagnations and devices of men, or the suggestions of Satan, under any visible representation, or any other way not prescribed in the holy Scripture (WCF 21:1).
What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it (Deut. 12:32).
But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men (Matt. 15:9).
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments (Exod. 20:4-6).