Volume 2

The doctrine of abstinence from blood defended. In answer to two pamphlets, the one called, The question about eating blood stated and examined, etc. [by William Burscough or John Averell] The other entitled, The prohibition of blood a temporary precept / By the author of Revelation examined with candour [i.e. Patrick Delany].

  • Patrick Delany
Date:
1734
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Credit: The doctrine of abstinence from blood defended. In answer to two pamphlets, the one called, The question about eating blood stated and examined, etc. [by William Burscough or John Averell] The other entitled, The prohibition of blood a temporary precept / By the author of Revelation examined with candour [i.e. Patrick Delany]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in contemplating the Wonders of God in the Deep! to obferve fuch infinite Numbers, with fuch infinite Variety of Creatures, in an Element fo feemingly adverfe to Life; and to fee them fo immenfely prolific, in a Re- gion of Salt and Sand, the livelieft Emblems of Barrennefs * ! to obferve their Procreation, and Increafe (in many Inftances) by Means, and ina Method, fo utterly different from eatthly Animals, and fuch as would exhauft the Admiration of Ages! and will perhaps continue to do {fo to all Eternity, under the Notice of very fuperior Beings, and under the Contemplation of Wifdom infinitely tranfcending that of Man. I fpeak this with the greateft Deference to the Judgment and Authority of my learned Adverfary; and if I have the Misfortune to err in this Opinion, I have however the Fe- licity to err, after the Judgment of the wifeft Men and greateft Philofophers of all Ages. — But if on the other Hand, the Dominion of Man over the other Creatures, to all the Purpofes * [am fully fatisfied, that there is no Element without its proper Inhabitants: The Fire-fly, (which is generated, lives, and fubfifts in Fire, and perifbes out of it) defcribed by feveral ancient Naturalifts, and known to-them all, and to fome of the Moderns, is to me a ful] Proof of this Pofition. I recommend this Obfervation to the ferious Reflexions of thofe merry Gen- tlemen who ridicule the perpetual Duration of the human Bo- dies in the Torments of Hell.: H | above=
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