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 ingly, excluive of the ret that hould be in the world with him, is againt both cripture and all reaon : and it cannot poibly be made ene, if man in the former part of the vere do not ignify the ame with them in the latter ; only man there, as is uual, is taken for the pecies, and them the individuals of that pecies : and we have a reaon in the very text. God makes him in his own image, after his own likenes; makes him an intellectual creature, and o capable of dominion: for wherein oever ele the image of God conited, the intellectual nature was certainly a part of it, and belonged to the whole pecies, and enabled them to have dominion over the inferior creatures ; and therefore David ays in the 8 th Palm above cited, Thou hat made him little lower than the angels, thou haft made him to have dominion. It is not of Adam king David peaks here, for vere 4. it is plain, it is of man, and the on of man, of the pecies of mankind.

§. 31. And that this grant poken to Adam was made to him, and the whole pecies of man, is clear from our author's own proof out of the Palmit. The earth, aith the Palmit, hath he given to the children of men ; which hews the title comes from fatherhood. Thee are Sir Robert's words in the preface before cited, and a trange inference it is he makes; God hath given the earth to the children of men, ergo the title comes from fatherhood. It is pity