Revelation examined with candour, or, A fair enquiry into the sense and use of the several revelations expresly declared, or sufficiently implied, to be given to mankind from the creation, as they are found in the Bible . REVELATION EXAMINED, &c. VOL. IL Dissertation L Cmcerning the grant of animal food made to Noah after the flood. •E learn from the ninth This grant chapter oiGenefis, that ^^ ^^^^^•Toon after the flood, the charterof dominion over the animalworld, given to Ada?n^ was in-larged to Noah-^ the creatures being nowgranted to him, and, in him, to mankind, forfood; but granted, howe
Revelation examined with candour, or, A fair enquiry into the sense and use of the several revelations expresly declared, or sufficiently implied, to be given to mankind from the creation, as they are found in the Bible . REVELATION EXAMINED, &c. VOL. IL Dissertation L Cmcerning the grant of animal food made to Noah after the flood. •E learn from the ninth This grant chapter oiGenefis, that ^^ ^^^^^•Toon after the flood, the charterof dominion over the animalworld, given to Ada?n^ was in-larged to Noah-^ the creatures being nowgranted to him, and, in him, to mankind, forfood; but granted, however, under this plainreftridlion, that they fhould not eat the bloodwith the flefh. This appears from the thirdand fourth verfes of that chapter: verfe moving thing that liveth, fhall be meatfor youj even as the green herb, have J givenVol. II. B you. 2 Revelation Examined^ Sec, you all things. Here is the grant: after thatimmediately follows the reftridion ; But fiejhwith the life thereof, which is the blood thereof,fiall you 720t eat. Here you fee the grant islimited; and this limitation plainly teaches us,that tho man was allowed to eat the flefli ofthe creatures, yet he was not allowed to eatthe blood with it. Now one obvious apparent reafon of thisreltridion, is, to prevent unnecelTary crueltyin the ufeofthe creatures. Tho God, inhis goodnefs, allowed us to eat them, yet theTame goodnefs would not allow us to be wan-tonly cruel, or brutal, in their deftrudion jwould not allow us to devour them piece-meal, or to eat them alive, like wolves andtygers; but required, that we ihould firfl dif-patch them, by draining the blood from them:and this feems to be the fenfe of the Jewsupon this text, when they tell us, that it pro-hibits the limb of a living creature : for if pro-hibiting the limb of a living creature, be nota prohibition
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