PG 2.) Jesus said to pick up your cross and follow him. No one can carry it for you. Read William Penn, "No Cross, No Crown," or "John Locke, the Second Treaty of Government.". Locke was a physician; he knew people around him were suffering varying illnesses caused by sin, sinners, and oppression. those who were not living by the laws of nature and nature's God without the Holy Spirit of God liberating their minds, wills, emotions, and bodies from those who sin and from sin itself. It is all in the Declaration of Independence. It is the foundation of America the Gospel of Jesus Christ written out in action.