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 Noah, had any private dominion, any property in the creatures, excluive of his poterity, as they hould ucceively grow up into need of them, and come to be able to make ue of them.

§. 40. Thus we have.examined our author's argument for Adam's monarchy, founded on the bleing pronounced, i.Gen. 28. Wherein I think it is impoible for any ober reader, to find any other but the etting of mankind above the other kinds of creatures, in this habitable earth of ours. It is nothing but the giving to man, the whole pecies of man, as the chief inhabitant, who is the image of his Maker, the dominion over the other creatures. This lies o obvious in the plain words, that any one, but our author, would have thought it neceary to have hewn, how thee words, that eemed to ay the quite contrary, gave Adam monarchical abolute power over other men, or the ole property in all the creatures ; and methinks in a buines of this moment, and that whereon he builds all that follows, he hould have done omething more than barely cite words, which apparently make againt him ; for I confes, I cannot ee any thing in them, tending to Adam's monarchy, or private dominion, but quite the contrary. And I the les deplore the dulnes of my apprehenion herein, ince I find the apotle eems to have as little notion of any uch private dominion of Adam 'as