“For Men being all the Workmanship of one Omnipotent, and infinitely wise Maker: All the Servants of one Sovereign Master, sent into the World by his Order, and about his Business, they are his Property, whose Workmanship they are, made to last during his, not one anothers Pleasure …” Christian History*, page 58:6 The American Colonists regarded themselves as God’s property—because “man has a Property in his own Person”—and that person belongs to God. We are all His Workmanship—we are made for His
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