The Right Of Seigniory In Theocratic Society
Chapter 3
There is only one servitude
540. It follows directly that, as there is only one Lord, so there is only one servitude.
541. This principle is also the basis of the government exercised by God
over his creatures. He wanted it written at the beginning of the positive
legislation he gave to his people, `You shall worship the Lord, your God, and
HIM ONLY SHALL YOU SERVE'(41) These words clearly command two things: the worship
of God, and care to safeguard one's freedom from all service that is
not divine.
Worship is the acknowledgement of the unique, absolute dominion of the supreme
Being, by which the creature willingly submits himself to God. This full,
voluntary submission to the supreme Being involves the necessity of not serving
anything else because any other service would diminish that due to God. Every
other service completely ceases to be such when compared with that of God.
Notes
(41) Deut 6: 13; 10: 20.