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 next place, it is manifet: that in this bleing to Noah and his ons, property is not only given in clear words, but in a larger extent than it was to ''Adam. Into your hands'' they are given, ays God to Noah and his ons; which words, if they give not property, nay, property in poeion, it will be hard to find words that can ; ince there is not a way to expres a man's being poeed of any thing more natural, nor more certain, than to ay, it is delivered into his hands. And ver. 3. to hew, that they had then given them the utmot property man is capable of, which is to have a right to detroy any thing by uing it ; Every moving thing that liveth, aith God, hall be meat for you ; which was not allowed to Adam in his charter. This our author calls, a liberty of uing them for food, and only an enlargement of commons, but no alteration of property, Obervations, 211. What other property man can have in the creatures, but the liberty of uing them, is hard to be undertood : o that if the firt bleing, as our author ays, gave Adam dominion over the creatures, and the bleing to Noah and his ons, gave them uch a liberty to ue them, as Adam had not ; it mut needs give them omething that Adam with all his overeignty wanted, omething that one would be apt to take for a greater property ; for certainly he has no abolute dominion over even the brutal part of the creatures ; and the property he has in, Rh