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  a denial of Adam ' s creation, and would be glad any body ele (ince our author did not vouchafe us the favour) would make it out for him: for I find no difficulty to uppoe the freedom of mankind, though I have always believed the creation of Adam. He was created, or began to exit, by God's immediate power, without the intervention of parents or the of any of the ame pecies to beget him, when it pleaed God he hould; and o did the lion, the king of beats, before him, by the ame creating power of God: and if bare exitence by that power, and in that way, will give dominion, without any more ado, our author, by this argument, will make the lion have as good a title to it, as he, and certainly the antienter. No! for Adam had his title by the appointment of God, ays our author in another place. Then bare creation gave him not dominion, and one might have uppoed mankind free without the denying the creation of Adam, ince it was God's appointment made him monarch.

§. 16. But let us ee, how he puts his creation and this appointment together. By the appointment of God, ays Sir Robert, as oon as Adam was created, he was monarch of the world, though he had no ubjects; for though there could not be actual government till there were ubjects, yet by the right of nature it was due to Adam to be governor of his poterity:  Rh