Vegetable cookery : with an introduction, recommending abstinence from animal food and intoxicating liquors / By a lady.

Date:
1833
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    to some passages of Scripture, which, if they have any meaning, must be directions to man in the choice of his food. If, then, reason, humanity, and the law of God point the same way, we have three witnesses to the truth of the doctrine. The conflicting opi- nions of men, respecting what is best either for the promotion of health or happiness, cannot safely be relied upon; let Deity, then, decide the question ; and if ye will do His will, ye shall know by experi- ence whether the doctrine be of God. In the first chapter of Genesis, after God had cre- ated man, he directed him concerning his food, say- ing, ‘ Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed, to you it shall be for meat* In the Decalogue Jehovah says, ‘ Thou shalt not kill* Who dare limit the precept to the killing of human beings, when God has said, ‘ Ye shall neither add to the law nor diminish aught from it?’ He further says, Flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall ye not eat: neither shall ye eat any manner of fat of ox, or of sheep, or of goat, in any of your dwell- ings. In the Christian dispensation, the Apostles held a council and issued a decree to the Churches, saying, ‘ It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay upon you no greater burden than these ne- cessary things: that ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood (or intoxicating wine, see Ezek. xxxix. 19), and from things strangled, or, in other words, from animals which have suffered a violent death. From Judith xi. 12, we learn that the eating of animal food was what God had forbidden by his laws. And we have the strongest proof that the Israelites were fed with manna for forty years in the wilderness, although they had much cattle. In Ec- clus. xxxix. 26, it is said that the principal things for