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CHAP. IV. 



TV yT AN is a creature too weak and imperfect 

 to trace the works of the Great Creator 

 in their juft and natural gradations ; yet he, with 

 all humility and gratitude, ought to own, that, 

 of all God's vifible creatures, he is under the 

 greateft obligations to his Creator, for having 

 given to him the firft place amongft created 

 beings in this lower world, and alfo the com- 

 mand, dominion, and rule over all the beings 

 inferior to himfelf that cover the face of this 

 globe, having even denied them the means of 

 efcaping from man's unbounded will and ty- 

 ranny. The human race is not only thus fu- 

 perior to the other creatures on this earth, but 

 each particular man feems intended by his Ma- 

 ker to be equally free, and not fubjedled to 

 the arbitrary will of any other man. Tyrants 

 over men are the effed of popular depravity, 

 vice, and unbounded ambition j and, when 



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