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 in words of undetermined and dubious meaning, look like a ort of arguing, when there is indeed neither proof nor connection : a way very familiar with our author: of which having given the reader a tate here, I hall, as much as the argument will permit me, avoid touching on hereafter; and hould not have done it here, were it not to let the world ee, how incoherences in matter, and uppoitions without proofs put handomely together in good words and a plauible tile, are apt to pas for trong reaon and good ene, till they come to be looked into with attention.

CHAP. IV. Of Adam's Title to Sovereignty by Donation, Gen. i. 28.

at lat got through the foregoing paage, where we have been o long detained, not by the force of arguments and oppoition, but the intricacy of the words, and the doubtfulnes of the meaning ; let us go on to his next argument, for Adam's overeignty. Our author tells us in the words of Mr. Selden, that Adam by donation from God, Gen. i. 28. was made the general lord of all things, not without uch a private dominion to himelf as without ''his grant did exclude his children. This determination of Mr.'' Selden, ays our author, is 3