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 argument, as Sir Robert puts it, will hold as well for one as the other: but of this, more in its due place.

§. 12. All that I take notice of here, is, that this is all our author ays in this firt, or any of the following chapters, to prove the abolute power of Adam, which is his great principle: and yet, as if he had there ettled it upon ure demontration, he begins his econd chapter with thee words, By conferring thee proofs and reaons, drawn from the authority of the cripture. Where thoe proofs and reaons for Adam ' s overeignty are, bating that of Honour thy father, above mentioned, I confes, I cannot find; unles what he ays, p. 11. In thee words we have an evident confeion, viz. of Bellarmine, that creation made man prince of his poterity, mut be taken for proofs and reaons drawn from cripture, or for any ort of proof at all: though from thence by a new way of inference, in the words immediately following, he concludes, the royal authority of Adam ufficiently ettled in him.

§. 13. If he has in that chapter, or any where in the whole treatie, given any other proofs of Adam's royal authority, other than by often repeating it, which, among ome men, goes for argument, I deire any body for him to hew me the place and page, that I may be convinced of my mitake, and acknowledge my overight. If no uch argu-