independent from God, or that he is immortal, or of infinite power, and the like; though commanded by princes, yet must they be abstained from. As also from those _actions_ signifying the same; as prayer to the absent; to ask those things which God alone can give, as rain and fair weather; to offer him what God can only accept, as oblations, holocausts; or to give a worship, than which a greater cannot be given, as sacrifice. For these things seem to tend to this end, that God may not be thought to rule; contrary to what was supposed from the beginning. But genuflection, prostration, or any other act of the body whatsoever, may be lawfully used even in civil worship; for they may signify an acknowledgment of the civil power only. For divine worship is distinguished from civil, not by the motion, placing, habit, or gesture of the body, but by the declaration of our opinion of him whom we do worship. As if we cast down ourselves before any man, with intention of declaring by that sign that we esteem him as God, it is divine worship; if we do the same thing as a sign of our acknowledgment of the civil power, it is civil worship. Neither is the _divine worship_ distinguished from _civil_, by any action usually understood by the words λατρεία and δουλεία; whereof the former marking out the _duty_ of servants, the latter their _destiny_, they are words of the same action in degree. Footnote 19: _Truly it is to be done._] We said in art. 14 of this chapter, that they who attributed limits to God, transgressed the natural law concerning God’s worship. Now they who worship him in an image, assign him limits. Wherefore they do that which they ought not to do. And this place seems to contradict the former. We must therefore know first, that they who are constrained by authority, do not set God any bounds; but they who command them. For they who worship unwillingly, do worship in very deed: but they either stand or fall there, where they are commanded to stand or fall by a lawful sovereign. Secondly, I say it must be done, not at all times and everywhere, but on supposition that there is no other rule of worshipping God, beside the dictates of human reason; for then the will of the city stands for reason. But in the kingdom of God by way of covenant, whether old or new, where idolatry is expressly forbid, though the city commands us to worship thus, yet must we not do it. Which, if he shall consider, who conceived some repugnancy between this and art. 14, will surely cease to think so any longer. [Sidenote: What is sin in the natural kingdom of God, and what treason against the divine majesty.]