Gods promise to his plantation· as it was delivered in a sermon

Secondly, when he gives a foreign people favour in the eyes of any native people to come and sit down with them either by way of purchase, as Abraham did obtain the field of Machpelah; or else when they give it in courtesy, as Pharaoh. did the land of Goshen unto the sons of Jacob.

Secondly, when hee gives a forreigne people favour in the eyes of any native people to come and sit downe with them either by way of purchase, as Abraham did obtaine the field of Machpelah; or else when they give it in courtesie, as Pharaol. did the land of Goshen unto the sons of Iacob.

Thirdly, when he makes a Country though not altogether void of Inhabitants, yet void in that place where they reside. Where there is a vacant place, there is liberty for the sons of Adam or Noah to come and inhabit, though they neither buy it, nor ask their leaves. Abraham ⟨p. 5⟩and Isaac, when they ^*sojourned amongst the Philistines, they did not buy that land to feed their cattle, because they said There is room enough. And so did Jacob pitch his Tent by Shechem, Gen. 34.21. There was room enough, as Hamor said, Let them sit down amongst us. And in this case if the people who were former Inhabitants did disturb them in their possessions, they complained to the King, as of wrong done unto them: As Abraham did because they took away his well, in Gen. 21.25. For his right whereto he pleaded not his immediate calling from God, (for that would have seemed frivolous amongst the Heathen) but his own industry and culture in digging the well, verse 30. Nor doth the King reject his plea, with what had he to do to dig wells in their soil? but admitteth it as a Principle in Nature, That in a vacant soil, he that taketh possession of it, and bestoweth culture and husbandry upon it, his Right it is. And the ground of this is from the grand Charter gi to Adam and his posterity in Paradise,