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

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, Gen. 1.28. Multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it. If therefore any son of Adam come and find a place empty, he hath liberty to come, and fill, and subdue the earth there. This Charter was renewed to Noah, Gen. 9.1. Fulfil the earth and multiply: So that it is free from that common Grant, for any to take possession of vacant Countries. Indeed no Nation is to drive out another without special Commission from heaven, such as the Israelites had, unless the Natives do unjustly ⟨p. 6⟩wrong them, and will not recompense the wrongs done in peaceable sort, & then they may right themselves by lawful war, and subdue the Country unto themselves.