True religion vs idolatry

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Often appears with: worship of one god · superstition · religious persecution and toleration · prayer and worship · justice as a virtue · divine jealousy

Usually: argument (1) · censure (1)

Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) primary

Jean Calvin · 1541 (initial publication of the Institutes; this record is for a later 1559/French-collated edition, but the work’s composition spans Calvin’s revisions after earlier versions)
Book I. On The Knowledge Of God The Creator. > Chapter XII. God Contradistinguished From Idols, That He May Be Solely And (2/3)

Calvin contrasts true religion with idolatry: worship must belong to God alone, since Scripture’s claim of one God excludes transferring divine honors, and “superstition” corrupts worship by disorder and false gods.

Supremely Worshipped. We said, at the beginning, that the knowledge of God consists not in frigid speculation, but is accompanied by the worship of him. We also cursorily touched on the right method of worshipping him, which will be more fully explained in other places. I now only repeat, in few words, that whenever the Scripture asserts that there is but one God, it contends not for the bare name, but also teaches,…