Euroopa ideede ajaloo eksami kordamisküsimused
estates of his children and subjects; so that he may take or alienate their estates, sell, castrate, or use their persons as he
pleases, they being all his slaves, and he lord or proprietor of every thing, and his unbounded will their law. Our author
having placed such a mighty power in Adam, and upon that supposition sounded all government, and all power of princes,
it is reasonable to expect, that he should have proved this with arguments clear and evident, suitable to the weightiness of
the cause; that since men had nothing else left them, they might in slavery have such undeniable proofs of its necessity, that
their consciences might be convinced, and oblige them to submit peaceably to that absolute dominion, which their
governors had a right to exercise over them. Without this, what good could our author do, or pretend to do, by erecting
such an unlimited power, but flatter the natural vanity and ambition of men, too apt of itself to grow and encrease with the
annaabi.ee 
