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  though not in act, yet at leat in habit, Adam was a king from his creation. I wih he had told us here, what he meant by God's appointment: for whatoever providence orders, or the law of nature directs, or poitive revelation declares, may be aid to be by God's appointment: but I uppoe it cannot be meant here in the firt ene, i. e. by providence; becaue that would be to ay no more, but that as oon as Adam was created he was de facto monarch, becaue by right of nature it was due to Adam, to be governor of his poterity. But he could not de facto be by providence contituted the governor of the world, at a time when there was actually no government, no ubjects to be governed, which our author here confees. Monarch of the world is alo differently ued by our author; for ometimes he means by it a proprietor of all the world excluive of the ret of mankind, and thus he does in the ame page of his preface before cited: Adam, ays he, being commanded to multiply and people the earth, and to ubdue it, and having dominion given him over all creatures, was thereby the monarch of the whole world; none of bis poterity had any right to poes any thing but by his grant or permiion, or by succeion from him. 2. Let us undertand then by monarch proprietor of the world, and by appointment God's actual donation, and revealed poitive grant made to Adam, i. Gen. 28. as we ee Sir Robert