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To be copied
"not suffer a witch to live". Would our
author bring us back reenact the Statutes
of Elizabeth, and James I? Would he, to establish
the conformity between the laws of
Revelation, and of England, have us punished
with death, the vain pretenders to supernatural
Power, and knowledge? Again, Ye
Levit: Chap 7 Ver: 26 & 27 "shall eat no manner of blood, whether it
"be of fowl, or of beast, in any of your dwellings:
whatsoever Soul it be, that eateth
"any manner of blood, even that soul shall
"be cut off from his people." Note This law is repeated in Deuteronomy. C.XII V v.23, 24, 25 "Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; & though mayest not eat the life with the flesh. thou shalt not eat it: thou shalt pour it on top on the earth as water: thou shalt not eat it, that it may go Would our Author
condemn a man to death upon this law. hang a man for eating a black pudding?
or would he even go so far as to tell him, that
having sinned against done what is expressly forbidden
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