"Ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's." - 1 Corinthians 6:20.

Rights relating to property are carefully guarded by men.

They greatly resent any unwarranted use of what belongs to them. To touch their property is to touch them. The earth is the Lord's and the fulness thereof. Man sold himself to Satan and presumed to transfer the earth and the fulness thereof to the arch-apostate, and God so far allowed the bargain (for the punishment of man.) that Satan may be correctly styled the god of this world. " He that committeth sin is the servant of sin;" this word is the charter of Satan's kingdom upon earth. But into the slave-market of this world God hath gone in the person of his Son, and paid the tremendous price which authorizes him to take as many as he can find willing to go, and create them anew in the image of the Son. They that go, go willingly; fully and deliberately recognizing God's absolute property in them; and any subsequent alienation of their powers to the will of another, is most base and inexcusable.

It is not therefore a fragment of you that has been purchased; but the whole. You would hardly presume to say that the price was inadequate. Yet do you not seem to say so? How much of your time is the Lord's? Do you dress, feed, employ your body as unto the Lord? Is your tongue, your hand consecrated all to him? Your memory, imagination, hope? Your love and faith? Your houses and lands? Your influence?