Question 46

Is there something required, as well as something forbidden in this and every Commandment?

Yes.

Are we required to know God?

Yes.

May we lawfully or safely live in ignorance of God?

No.

Against what Commandment is ignorance?

Against the first.

Is it sufficient to know there is a God, though we do not own, nor acknowledg him to be a God to us?

No.

How must we own or acknowledg God?

To be the only true God, and our God.

Doth the first Commandment require us to have a God?

Yes.

And to have the true God for our God?

Yes.

May we have any other God besides him?

No.

May we have any other God with him?

No.

Must we own him for the [only] true God?

Yes.

And for our only God?

Yes.

Doth the First Commandment determine then of the only right Object of Divine worship, or whom only we must worship?

Yes.

Is it enough for us to know and verbally to acknowledg and make profession of him?

No.

What must we do more?

We must worship and glorifie him.

What worship of God is here required, either inward or outward?

Both.

Are we required then to worship God with the inward worship of the mind, as for example, to trust in him, and to love, fear, esteem, desire, and obey him?

Yes.

And with the outward worship too, as to pray to and praise him?

Yes.

How manifold then is the worship here required?

Inward and outward.

How are we to worship and glorifie God?

Accordingly: That is, as the only true God, and our God.

What above, and before all others?

Yes.

Do we worship and glorifie him as God, when we love, fear, or obey any other more then him, or before him?

No.

In what Commandment are we required to make profession of worship, and glorifie God?

In the First Commandment.