Nor truly do I think Conscience at all concern'd in the Matter, upon any
Account of Distinction of _Pure_ and _Impure_; tho' seriously consider'd
(as _Sextius_ held) _rationi magis congrua_, as it regards the cruel
Butcheries of so many harmless Creatures; some of which we put to
merciless and needless Torment, to accommodat them for exquisite and
uncommon _Epicurism_. There lies else no positive Prohibition;
Discrimination of Meats being [93]Condemn'd as the _Doctrine of Devils_:
Nor do Meats _commend us to God_. One eats _quid vult_ (of every thing:)
another _Olera_, and of _Sallets_ only: But this is not my Business,
further than to shew how possible it is by so many Instances and
Examples, to live on wholsome Vegetables, both long and happily: For so
[94]_The_ Golden Age, _with this Provision blest,_
_Such a_ Grand Sallet _made, and was a Feast._
_The_ Demi-Gods _with Bodies large and sound,_
_Commended then the Product of the Ground._
_Fraud then, nor Force were known, nor filthy Lust_,
_Which Over-heating and Intemp'rance nurst:_
_Be their vile Names in Execration held,_
_Who with foul Glutt'ny first the World defil'd:_
_Parent of Vice, and all Diseases since,_
_With ghastly Death sprung up alone from thence.
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