Colonies are newly founded lands on a certain location in this sense while they still swore allegiance to the old country. When talking about militia and colonies we have to know that militias which were self-assemblied were often the first and only line of defence. This was also in part due to bad logistic.
Answer: He made two arguments.
Explanation: 1. He argued that Abraham who was the chosen servant of God had slaves and that the conditions of slavery then was almost certainly worse than those of their own slaves, therefore if Abraham as exalted and morally upstanding in the bible as he was had slaves, then it was not morally wrong to possess slaves.
2. He made reference to both the old and new Testaments where there were evidence of slave possession; not in condemnation but texts which actually supportef and encouraged slave ownership.
Praying, sacraments, mass, Eucharist
