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 whole world: whereby mut be meant, that either this grant of God gave Adam property, or as our author calls it, private dominion over the earth, and all inferior or irrational creatures, and o conequently that he was thereby monarch; or 2dly, that it gave him rule and dominion over all earthly creatures whatoever, and thereby over his children ; and o he was monarch : for, as Mr. Selden has properly worded it, Adam was made general lord of all things, one may very clearly undertand him, that he means nothing to be granted to Adam here but property, and therefore he ays not one word of Adam's monarchy. But our author ays, Adam was hereby monarch of the world, which, properly peaking, ignifies overeign ruler of all the men in the world ; and o Adam, by this grant, mut be contituted uch a ruler. If our author means otherwie, he might with much clearnes have aid, that Adam was hereby proprietor of the whole world. But he begs your pardon in that point : clear ditinct: peaking not erving every where to his purpoe, you mut not expect it in him, as in Mr. Selden, or other uch writers.

§. 24. In oppoition therefore to our author's doctrine, that Adam was monarch of the whole world, founded on this place, I hall hew,

I. That by this grant, i. Gen. 28. God gave no immediate power to Adam over men, over