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  larmine, p. 8. and, by a victory over him, etablihes his fatherly authority beyond any quetion. Bellarmine being routed by his own confeion, p. 11. the day is clear got, and there is no more need of any forces: for having done that, I oberve not that he tates the quetion, or rallies up any arguments to make good his opinion, but rather tells us the tory, as he thinks fit, of this trange kind of domineering phantom, called the fatherhood, which whoever could catch, preently got empire, and unlimited abolute power. He aures us how this fatherhood began in Adam, continued its coure, and kept the world in order all the time of the patriarchs till the flood, got out of the ark with Noah and his ons, made and upported all the kings of the earth till the captivity of the Iraelites in Egypt, and then the poor fatherhood was under hatches, till God, by giving the Iraelites kings, re-etablihed the ancient and prime right of the lineal ucceion in paternal government. This is his buines from p. 12. to 19. And then obviating an objection, and clearing a difficulty or two with one half reaon, p. 23. to confirm the natural right of regal power, he ends the firt chapter. I hope it is no injury to call an half quotation an half reaon; for God ays, Honour thy father and mother; but our author contents himelf with half, leaves out thy