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Title: Revelation examined with candour : or, A fair enquiry into the sense and use of the several revelations expressly declared, or sufficiently implied, to be given to mankind from the creation, as they are found in the Bible
Year: 1733 (1730s)
Authors: Delany, Patrick, 1685 or 6-1768
Subjects: Bible Revelation -- Early works to 1800
Publisher: London : Printed for C. Rivington
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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fuffered, in the creaturesdeftroyed in facrifice for fin, was doubtlefs,at all times, a confiderable inconveniency ;efpecially after the flood. Nor let any manregard thefe damages as trifles, fince theywere fuch, in many cafes, as wife legiflatureshave put in ballance with a human life. The only difficulty now remaining, is,whether a command to deftroy the lives ofinnocent creatures, be confident with thedivine goodnefs and mercy. But this will be no more a difficulty,when we confider that their fubferviency toihe ends of human life, is, as far as we canfee, the fole end and purpofe of their being ;and that it is their happinefs, upon the whole,to be fubmitted to the dominion of man*and to be deftroyed for his ufes; fince theyare by this means preferved from weather,from want, and from one another; and re-lieved under difeafes and diftreffes of everykind: and forafrnuch as only a certain num-ber of them can fubfift conveniently toge-^ :r, tis evidently their intereft to be deli-vered
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Revelation Examind^ &c. 151 vered by fudden deft ructions, from moreJingring and cruel deaths. And thus, having fhewn, that facrificeswere of divine original j that faith onlycould make them acceptable to God ; andthat many ends of infinite wifdom andmercy were, at once, ferved by them :having alfo fhewn, that there was an appa-rent neceffity of Gods making fome cove-nant of mercy with Adam at this time; andthat it is highly credible, he did fo; I (hall,with Gods affiftance, enquire in due time,how credible it may be, that the <kath ofChrifi was figured in that covenant ; andwas neceflary to the redemption of theworld, in confequence of it In the mean time, I cannot, without in*dignation, reflect, upon the blind and info-lent vanity, of thofe wretched mortals, whowith fuch blafphemous and mocking teme-rity, fet themfelves to ridicule every inftitu-tion of God, which the corruption, or narrow-nefs, of their own heads and hearts, hathmade them incapable of comprehending!Whereas,

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