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CHAP. IV. 



yT AN is a creature too weak and imperfedb ^ 

 to trace the works of the Great Creator f 

 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 i 

 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 lu- 1 

 perior to the other creatures on this earth, but ; 

 each particular man feems intended by his Ma- 

 ker to be equally free, and not fubjeded to 

 the arbitrary will of any other man. Tyrants 

 over men are the efFe6t of popular depravity, 

 yice, and unbounded ambition -, and, when 



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