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  ration from them two, as parts of them, all mankind be propagated: if alo God gave to Adam not only the dominion over the woman and the children that hould iue from them, but alo over all the earth to ubdue it, and over all the creatures on it, o that as long as Adam lived, no man could claim or enjoy any thing but by donation, aignation or permiion from him, I wonder, &c. Obervations, 165. Here we have the um of all his arguments, for Adam's overeignty, and againt natural freedom, which I find up and down in his other treaties: and they are thee following; God's creation of Adam, the dominion he gave him over Eve, and the dominion he had as father over his children: all which I hall particularly conider.

IR Robert, in his preface to his Obervations on Aritotle ' s politics, tells us, A natural freedom of mankind cannot be uppoed without the denial of the creation of Adam: but how Adam ' s being created, which was nothing but his receiving a being immediately from omnipotence and the hand of God, gave Adam a overeignty over any thing, I cannot ee, nor conequently undertand, how a uppoition of natural freedom is