ments are to be found, I beſeech thoſe men, who have ſo much cried up this book, to conſider, whether they do not give the world cauſe to ſuſpect, that it is not the force of reaſon and argument, that makes them for abſolute monarchy, but ſome other by intereſt, and therefore are reſolved to applaud any author, that writes in favour of this doctrine, whether he ſupport it with reaſon or no. But I hope they do not expect, that rational and indifferent men ſhould be brought over to their opinion, becauſe this their great doctor of it, in a diſcourſe made on purpoſe, to ſet up the abſolute monarchical power of Adam, in oppoſition to the natural freedom of mankind, has ſaid ſo little to prove it, from whence it is rather naturally to be concluded, that there is little to be ſaid.
§. 14. But that I might omit no care to inform myſelf in our author's full ſenſe, I conſulted his Obſervations on Ariſtotle, Hoobes, &c. to ſee whether in diſputing with others he made uſe of any arguments for this his darling tenet of Adam's ſovereignty; ſince in his treatiſe of the Natural Power of Kings, he hath been ſo ſparing of them. In his Obſervations on Mr. Hobbes's Leviathan, I think he has put, in ſhort, all thoſe arguments for it together, which in his writings I find him any where to make uſe of: his words are theſe: If God created only Adam, and of a piece of him made the woman, and if by gene-ration
