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 things under his feet, all heep and oxen, and the beats of the field, and the fowls of the air, and fih of the ea, and whatover paeth thro' the paths of the ea. In which words, if any one can find out, that there is meant any monarchical power of one man over another, but only the dominion of the whole pecies of mankind, over the inferior pecies of creatures, he may, for aught I know, deerve to be one of Sir Robert's monarchs in habit, for the rarenes of the dicovery. And by this time, I hope it is evident, that he that gave dominion over every living thing that moveth on the earth, gave Adam no monarchical power over thoe of his own pecies, which will yet appear more fully in the next thing I am to hew.

§. 29. 2. Whatever God gave by the words of this grant, i. Gen. 28. it was not to Adam in particular, excluive of all other men : whatever dominion he had thereby, it was not a private dominion, but a dominion in common with the ret of mankind. That this donation was not made in particular to Adam, appears evidently from the words of the text, it being made to more than one; for it was poken in the plural number, God bleed them, and aid unto them, Have dominion. God ays unto Adam and Eve, Have dominion ; thereby, ays our author, Adam was monarch of the world : but the grant being to them, i. e. poke to Eve alo, as many interpreters