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 interpreters think with reaon, that thee words were not poken till Adam had his wife, mut not he thereby be lady, as well as he lord of the world ? If it be aid, that Eve was ubjected to Adam, it eems he was not o ubjected to him, as to hinder her dominion over the creatures, or property in them : for hall we ay that God ever made a joint grant to two, and one only was to have the benefit of it ?

§. 30. But perhaps it will be aid, Eve was not made till afterward : grant it o, what advantage will our author get by it ? The text will be only the more directly againt him, and hew that God, in this donation, gave the world to mankind in common, and not to Adam in particular. The word them in the text mut include the pecies of man, for it is certain them can by no means ignify Adam alone. In the 26th vere, where God declares his intention to give this dominion, it is plain he meant, that he would make a pecies of creatures, that hould have dominion over the other pecies of this terretrial globe : the words are, ''And God aid. Let us make man in our image'', after our likenes, and let them have dominion over the fih, &c. They then were to have dominion. Who ? even thoe who were to have the image of God, the individuals of that pecies of man, that he was going to make ; for that them hould ignify Adam, Rh