The question about eating of blood stated and examin'd; in answer to two dissertations in a book entitled, Revelation examin'd with candour [by Patrick Delany] / [John Averill].

  • Averell, John, 1713-1771.
Date:
1732
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Credit: The question about eating of blood stated and examin'd; in answer to two dissertations in a book entitled, Revelation examin'd with candour [by Patrick Delany] / [John Averill]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    he not give it him to make a reasonable ufe of them? Was not mankind obliged to make ufe of their rea- fon then, as much as they are now ? And was not cruelty to the creature, or luxury in the ufe of them, &c. as much a crime before the flood, as it has been fince. And that this precept, of not eating fldh with the blood thereof, which was given to Noah, was intended only to prevent cruelty to the creatures, while they were alive, is further evinced from the permiffion in the 14th of Deut. given to the Jews, to fell creatures, which died of themfelves, and of confequence had the blood in them, to an alien or a ftranger. For although the alien or ftranger were not of the flock of Abraham, yet they mult be allow¬ ed to be of the fons of Noah, to whom this prohi¬ bition was given. So that, it is puting the fcriptures in too ludicrous a light, to fuppofe God Almighty permitting the Jews to fell meat to an alien, which he had before hand prohibited the alien from eating. But to go on along with our author, who pro¬ ceeds to enquire, whether the eating of blood, is not alfo forbidden by this prohibition of eating the flefh with the blood ? And to prove this, he firft be¬ gins with the original text. But flefh with the life thereof which is the blood thereof , /hall you not eat. And concludes from thence, that as a refervation of mines and minerals in a leafe, gives the leafee no right to the mines or minerals, though he has a grant of the lands: So no reafonable man can infer from thence, that he. has a right to the blood. 4 At leaft, 1 think, fays he, no man can fairly in- c fer, that there is an exprefs grant made of the c blood, and without fuch a grant, Ais certain we i may not eat it. But in anfwer to this, I hope I have already fhewed, that there was an exprefs grant given of dominion over the creatures to Adam ; and, of con¬ fequence, of the ufe of thofe creatures, as well for food, as for raiment ; and, that therein there was