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 ments are to be found, I beeech thoe men, who have o much cried up this book, to conider, whether they do not give the world caue to upect, that it is not the force of reaon and argument, that makes them for abolute monarchy, but ome other by interet, and therefore are reolved to applaud any author, that writes in favour of this doctrine, whether he upport it with reaon or no. But I hope they do not expect, that rational and indifferent men hould be brought over to their opinion, becaue this their great doctor of it, in a dicoure made on purpoe, to et up the abolute monarchical power of Adam, in oppoition to the natural freedom of mankind, has aid o little to prove it, from whence it is rather naturally to be concluded, that there is little to be aid.

§. 14. But that I might omit no care to inform myelf in our author's full ene, I conulted his Obervations on Aritotle, Hoobes, &c. to ee whether in diputing with others he made ue of any arguments for this his darling tenet of Adam's overeignty; ince in his treatie of the Natural Power of Kings, he hath been o paring of them. In his Obervations on Mr. Hobbes ' s Leviathan, I think he has put, in hort, all thoe arguments for it together, which in his writings I find him any where to make ue of: his words are thee: If God created only Adam, and of a piece of him made the woman, and if by gene  -