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 invite his creature Man, might perhaps be sufficient for my present purpose, without descending to farther particulars; but yet, as I received extraordinary satisfaction myself in tracing minutely the manner in which the said Covenants have been tendered and ratified, I am inclined to suppose that many of my Readers will reap the fame satisfaction by perusing some examples of it, because they demonstrate the real dignity and Natural Rights of MAN, far beyond any thing that I could possibly have conceived before I made the said Examination with this particular view to the Freedom of Man; and as I have too much reason to apprehend, that many of my countrymen have overlooked or neglected these striking instances, which relate to the present subject, the Right of Assent; I propose to add (sometime hereafter, as soon as I can possibly find leisure to revise it for the press) a third Part also to this “Declaration of the People's natural Right to a Share in the Legislature;” which third Part (being founded on some remarkable examples in Scripture, concerning the gracious and most liberal mode whereby the revealed Laws, even of God himself, have been