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 being not then created, was not contained under any of thoe names ; and therefore, whether we undertand the Hebrew words right or no, they cannot be uppoed to comprehend man, in the very ame hitory, and the very next veres following, epecially ince that Hebrew word ךמש which, if any in this donation to Adam, ch. i. 28. mut comprehend man, is o plainly ued in contraditinction to him, as Gen. vi. 20. vii. 14, 21, 23. Gen. viii. 17, 19. And if God made all mankind laves to Adam and his heirs by giving Adam dominion over every living thing that moveth on the earth, ch. i. 28. as our author would have it, methinks Sir Robert hould have carried his monarchical power one tep higher, and atisfied the world, that princes might eat their ubjects too, ince God gave as full power to Noah and his heirs, ch. ix. 2. to eat every living thing that moveth, as he did to Adam to have dominion over them, the Hebrew words in both places being the ame.

§.28. David, who might be uppoed to undertand the donation of God in this text, and the right of kings too, as well as our author in his comment on this place, as the learned and judicious Ainworth calls it, in the 8th Palm, finds here no uch charter of monarchical power, his words are, Thou hat made him, i. e. man, the Son of man, a little lower than the angels ; thou madet him to have dominion over the works of thy hands ; thou hat put all things