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 iderable difference between thee two texts ; the firt bleing gave Adam a dominion over the earth and all creatures ; the latter allows Noah liberty to ue the living creatures for food : here is no alteration or diminihing of his title to a property of all things, but an enlargement only of his commons, Obervations, 211. So that in our author's ene, all that was aid here to Noah and his ons, gave them no dominion, no property, but only enlarged the commons ; their commons, I hould ay, ince God ays, to you are they given, though our author ays his ; for as for Noah's ons, they, it eems, by Sir Robert's appointment, during their father's life-time, were to keep fating days.

§. 39. Any one but our author would be mightily upected to be blinded with prejudice, that in all this bleing to Noah and his ons, could ee nothing but only an enlargement of commons : for as to dominion, which our author thinks omitted, the fear of you, and the dread of you, ays God, hall be upon every beat, which I uppoe exprees the dominion, or uperiority was deigned man over the living creatures, as fully as may be ; for in that fear and dread eems chiefly to conit what was given to Adam over the inferior animals ; who, as abolute a monarch as he was, could not make bold with a lark or rabbet to atisfy his hunger, and had the herbs but in common with the beats, as is plain from i Gen. 2, 9, and 30. In the next