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 over his children, over thoe of his own pecies ; and o he was not made ruler, or monarch, by this charter.

2. That by this grant God gave him not private dominion over the inferior creatures, but right in common with all mankind ; o neither was he monarch, upon the account of the property here given him.

§. 25. I. That this donation, i. Gen. 28. gave Adam no power over men, will appear if we conider the words of it : for ince all poitive grants convey no more than the expres words they are made in will carry, let us ee which of them here will comprehend mankind, or Adam's poterity, and thoe, I imagine, if any, mut be thee, every living thing that moveth : the words in Hebrew are, חיה חךמשת​ Betiam Reptantem, of which words the cripture itelf is the bet interpreter : God having created the fihes and fowls the 5th day, the beginning of the 6th, he creates the irrational inhabitants of the dry land, which, v. 24. are decribed in thee words, let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind; cattle and creeping things, and beats of the earth, after his kind, and, v. 2. and God made the beats of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth on the earth after his kind : here, in the creation of the brute inhabitants of the earth, he firt peaks of them all under one general name, of living crea- tures,'