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 ervations, p. 155. Law is nothing ele but the will of him that hath the power of the upreme father, Obervations, p. 223. It was God's ordinance that the upremacy hould be unlimited in Adam, and as large as all the acts of his will; and as in him o in all others that have upreme power, Obervations, p. 245.

§. 9. I have been fain to trouble my reader with thee everal quotations in our author's own words, that in them might be een his own decription of his fatherly authority, as it lies cattered up and down in his writings, which he uppoes was firt veted in Adam, and by right belongs to all princes ever ince. This fatherly authority then, or right of fatherhood, in our author's ene, is a divine unalterable right of overeignty, whereby a father or a prince hath an abolute, arbitrary, unlimited, and unlimitable power over the lives, liberties, and etates of his children and ubjects; o that he may take or alienate their etates, fell, catrate, or ue their perons as he pleaes, they being all his laves, and he lord or proprietor of every thing, and his unbounded will their law.

§. 10. Our author having placed uch a mighty power in Adam, and upon that uppoition founded all government, and all power of princes, it is reaonable to expect, that he hould have proved this with arguments clear and evident, uitable to the weightines of the