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at leaſt not in the firſt and early ages before every man had corrupted his way; and God was forced to exterminate the whole race by an univerſal deluge, and was alſo obliged (that the globe of the earth might not, from the long lives of its inhabitants, become a hell and habitation for incarnate devils) to ſhorten their lives from 900 or 1000 to 70 years. He wiſely foreſaw that animal food and artificial liquors would naturally contribute towards this end, and indulged or permitted, the generation that was to plant the earth again after the flood, the uſe of theſe for food .—Ibid. p. 91 and 92.—There are ſome ſorts of food which may oppreſs and load the ſtomach, and alimentary duets in the firſt concoction, which may be very ſafe and benign in the ſubſequent ones. Forinſtance,
