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 the caue, that ince men had nothing ele left them, they might in lavery have uch undeniable proofs of its neceity, that their conciences might be convinced, and oblige them to ubmit peaceably to that abolute dominion, which their governors had a right to exercie over them. Without this, what good could our author do, or pretend to do, by erecting uch an unlimited power, but flatter the natural vanity and ambition of men, too apt of itelf to grow and encreae with the poeion of any power? and by peruading thoe, who, by the conent of their fellowmen, are advanced to great, but limited, degrees of it, that by that part which is given them, they have a right to all, that was not o; and therefore may do what they pleae, becaue they have authority to do more than others, and o tempt them to do what is neither for their own, nor the good of thoe under their care; whereby great michiefs cannot but follow.

§. 11. The overeignty of Adam, being that on which, as a ure bais, our author builds his mighty abolute monarchy, I expected, that in his Patriarcha, this his main uppoition would have been proved, and etablihed with all that evidence of arguments, that uch a fundamental tenet required; and that this, on which the great tres of the buines depends, would have been made out with reaons ufficient to jutify the confidence with