John 8:33

We be Abraham's seed, &c.— "Then some of those who had professed to believe in him taking it as a high affront, that he should speak as if he thought them to be slaves, said to him in a vaunting manner, We are the descendants of the celebrated patriarch Abraham, who, being a sovereign prince, and a man in covenant with God, entailed all civil and religious freedom upon us, as our birthright; and we never lost it bybeing enslaved to any foreign power, (which was a most gross falsity,) or governed by any laws but our own. What therefore can you mean by pretending to make us free, who are in right and fact so free already?"