“We believe that no man has a right to worship God any other way than he himself hath prescribed in his law. We also think it criminal for a man’s conscience to approve any way repugnant to this sacred rule: and that this crime cannot legitimate another, or make an action right which God expressly condemns under pain of eternal wrath.

If conscience can legitimate what God’s law condemns, it must be paramount to the divine law, and, consequently, to the Legislator also, in having a negative over the requisitions of both the one and the other.

Were this the case, it would not only free from criminality, but would render virtuous, laudable, and praiseworthy the most damnable errors — the most horrid blasphemies and detestable abominations — if but dictated by the consciences of Pagans, Mohammedans, &c. Then the Egyptians, worshiping God under the form of a snake or crocodile, would be as lawful, yea, as commendable, as doing it precisely according to the manner which he has prescribed in his word, provided, that, in both cases, conscience said Amen!” —Samuel B.Wylie, The Two Sons of Oil; or, The Faithful Witness for Magistracy and Ministry Upon a Scriptural Basis (1803), p. 41