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 them is very narrow and canty, who cannot make that ue of them, which is permitted to another. Should any one who is, abolute lord of a country, have bidden our author ubdue the earth, and given him dominion over the creatures in it, but not have permitted him to have taken a kid or a lamb out of the flock, to atisfy his hunger, I gues, he would carce have thought himelf lord or proprietor of that land, or the cattle on it ; but would have found the difference between having dominion, which a hepherd may have, and having full property as an owner. So that, had it been his own cafe, Sir Robert, I believe, would have thought here was an alteration, nay, an enlarging of property ; and that Noah and his children had by this grant, not only property given them, but uch a property given them in the creatures, as Adam had not : For however, in repect of one another, men may be allowed to have propriety in their ditinct: portions of the creatures ; yet in repect of God the maker of heaven and earth, who is ole lord and proprietor of the whole world, man's propriety in the creatures is nothing but that liberty to ue them, which God has permitted ; and o man's property may be altered and enlarged, as we ee it was here, after the flood, when other ues of them are allowed, which before were not. From all which I uppoe it is clear, that neither Adam, nor Rh