God's promise to his plantations

2. 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.

2. When he gives a forreign 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 courtesie, as Pharaoh did the Land of Goshen unto the Sons of Jacob.

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,