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 thence : but what connection has this with Adam's creation, to make him ay, that as oon as he was created, he was monarch of the world? for it may be as well aid of Noah, that as oon as he was born, he was monarch of the world, ince he was in poibility (which in our author's ene is enough to make a monarch, a monarch in habit, ) to outlive all mankind, but his own poterity. What uch neceary connection there is betwixt Adam's creation and his right to government, o that a natural freedom of mankind cannot be uppoed without the denial of the creation of Adam, I confes for my part I do not ee; nor how thoe words, by the appointment, &c. Obervations, 254. how ever explained, can be put together, to make any tolerable ene, at leat to etablih this poition, with which they end, ''viz. Adam was a king from his creation''; a king, ays our author, not in act, but in habit, i. e. actually no king at all.

§. 20. I fear I have tired my reader's patience, by dwelling longer on this paage, than the weightines of any argument in it eems to require : but I have unavoidably been engaged in it by our author's way of writing, who, hudling everal uppoitions together, and that in doubtful and general terms, makes uch a medly and confuion, that it is impoible to hew his mitakes, without examining the everal enes wherein his