for a whole month;—and now mark the dreadful consequences resulting from the permission of this disobedient people to gratify their sinful desires—"While the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the judgment of the Lord was against the people, and they were afflicted with a great plague." So great, indeed, was the fatal effect of this transgression, that the place was subsequently denominated "the sepulchre of the lusters!"—These instances of Scripture Testimony will enable you to understand our meaning in relation to the appointments of Jehovah in contradistinction to the permissions of his Providence; We repeat the observation then, hoping we are now understood, that whenever Jehovah prescibes or appoints a diet for his people, that diet is always vegetable, without any admixture of the flesh of animals, "He maketh the grass to grow for the cattle, and the green herb for the use of Man." The writer of the book of Ecclesiasticus (xxxix. 26.) in describing those few things that are requisite for man's welfare, says "The principal things for the whole use of man's life are, water, fire, iron and salt; flour of wheat, honey, milk, and the blood of the grape, and oil and clothing." There can be no reasonable doubt but that such was the light in which the subject was viewed by the faithful among the ancient Israelites. The refreshments David received at different times, for the support of himself and his six hundred faithful followers, from Abigail, from Ziba and Barzillia, and likewise what was brought to him at Hebron indicate very decidedly that such was the case. The provisions furnished on the various occasions I have named consisted of bread and wine, wheat and barley, and flour of each kind, beans, lentiles, parched corn, raisins, summer fruits, dried figs, honey, butter of kine, and cheese of sheep and oil. These were furnished in quantities sufficient to supply David and his army. The testimony of Judith, (chap xi.) though not considered canon-
