3. 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 Son of Adam or Noah to come and inhabit, though they neither buy it, nor ask their leaves. Abraham 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, ⟨p. 5⟩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 ulture, 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 given 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 wrong them, and will not recompense the wrongs done in peaceable sort, and then they may right themselves by lawful War, and subdue the Country unto themselves.
3. When he makes a Countrey, 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 Son of Adam or Noah to come and inhabit, though they neither buy it, nor ask their leaves. Abraham and Isaac, when they *Sojourned amongst the Philistims, they did not buy that Land to feed their Cattel, because they said There is room enough. And so did Jacob pitch his Tent by Sechem, Gen. 34. 21. There was room enough, as Hamor said, Let them sit down amongst us. And in this case, ⟨p. 5⟩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 ulture, in digging the Well, verse 30. Nor doth the King reject his plea, with What had he to do to dig Wells in their Soyle? but admitteth it as a Principle in Nature, That in a vacant Soyle, 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 given 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 wrong them, and will not recompence the wrongs done in peaceable sort, and then they may right themselves by lawful War, and subdue the Countrey unto themselves.
- *This Sojourning was a constant residence there, as in a Possession of their own; although it be called Sojourning or Dwelling as Strangers; because they neither had the sovereign Government of the whole Country in their own hand nor yet did incorporate themselves into the Common-wealth of the Natives, to submit themselves unto their Government.This Sojourning was a constant residence there, as in a Possession of their own; although it be called Sojourning or Dwelling as Strangers; because they neither had the soveraign Government of the whole Country in their own hand nor yet did incorporate themselvs into the Common-wealth of the Natives, to submit themselves unto their Government.
