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, and then afterwards divides them into three ranks, 1. Cattle, or uch creatures as were or might be tame, and o be the private poeion of particular men ; 2. חיה which, ver. 24, and 25. in our Bible, is tranlated beats, and by the Septuagint θηףίχ, wild beats, and is the ame word, that here in our text, ver. 28. where we have this great charter to Adam, is tranlated living thing, and is alo the ame word ued, Gen. ix. 2. where this Grant is renewed to Noah, and there likewie tranlated beat. 3. The third rank were the creeping animals, which ver. 24, and 25. are compried under the word, חךמּשת, the fame that is ued here, ver. 28. and is tranlated moving, but in the former veres creeping, and by the Septuagint in all thee places, έρπετά, or reptils ; from whence it appears, that the words which we tranlate here in God's donation, ver. 28. living creatures moving, are the ame, which in the hitory of the creation, ver. 24, 25. ignify two ranks of terretrial creatures, ''viz. wild beats'' and reptils, and are o undertood by the Septuagint.

§. 26. When God had made the irrational animals of the world, divided into three kinds, from the places of their habitation, viz. fihes of the ea, fowls of the air, and living creatures of the earth, and thee again into cattle, wild beats, and reptils, he coniders of making man, and the dominion he hould have over the terretrial world, ver. 26. and then