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 from thenceforth our author's hort model was to be the pattern in the mount, and the perfect tandard of politics for the future. His ytem lies in a little compas, it is no more but this,


 * That all government is abolute monarchy.

And the ground he builds on, is this,
 * That no man is born free.

§. 3. In this lat age a generation of men has prung up amongt us, that would flatter princes with an opinion, that they have a divine right to abolute power, let the laws by which they are contituted, and are to govern, and the conditions under which they enter upon their authority, be what they will, and their engagements to oberve them never o well ratified by olemn oaths and promies. To make way for this doctrine, they have denied mankind a right to natural freedom; whereby they have not only, as much as in them lies, expoed all ubjects to the utmot miery of tyranny and oppreion, but have alo unettled the titles, and haken the thrones of princes: (for they too, by thee mens ytem, except only one, are all born laves, and by divine right are ubjects to Adam ' s right heir;) as if they had deigned to make war upon all government, and ubvert the very foundations of human ociety, to erve their preent turn.

§. 4. However we mut believe them upon their own bare words, when they tell us, we Rh