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 By a quibble equally miſerable were the lives of innocent animals explained away amongſt the Jews. God and Nature, which are the ſame, had ſaid to Adam, "Behold I have given you every herb bearing ſeed, which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding ſeed; to you it ſhall be for meat," Gen. chap. i. ver. 29.

"But fleſh, with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, ſhall you not eat," Gen. chap. ix. ver. 5.

How did the Jews elude this poſitive command of a merciful God? Why, they murdered the animal, and pouring out his blood upon the earth like water, devoured