Sio ME M O 1 R S of tbe 
SIS Cain was not to facrifice the whole fruits of his tiilaoe, io^ 
ncithtjr was Jbeh the whole produfl of his (lieep, but the bell, 
that is the firftlings of his flocks, and the fat thereof, referving 
the reft for his own ufe ; and it is not probable, that God 
would grant Noah after the flood, a greater dominion over 
other animals, than had been given to Adam^ in paradife be- 
fore the fall 5 and the Dr. then takes this permiffion to Noah y 
not as contra-diftinfl from that to Adam^ but rather as intro- 
duftive of the prohibition, which prefently follows, to wit, 
tho' he might eat fledi, even as the green herb (fo far as it 
might be wholefome food) yet, not with the blood thereof 5 that 
is not raw flefii , the Dr. adds al fo, that the fame rule is given 
to other animals Gen. i. 30. as is to man at ver. 29. / have 
given them every green herb for meat-^ yet there are, we know, 
fcveral carnivorous animals, without any further permiffion 
that we know of: But without difputing it as a point in 
divinity, the Dr. confiders it with Gajjendus^ as a queftion 
in natural philofoph^', whether it be proper food for men : 
The conlideration infifted upon by Gajjendus, is from the ftruc- 
ture of the teeth, being moftly either InciforeSy or liiolares^ 
not fuch as, in carnivorous animals, are proper to tear fleOi, 
excepting only four, which are called Caniniy as if nature had 
rather furniflied our teeth for cutting herbs, roots, ^c, and 
for bruifing grain, nuts, and other hard fruits, than for tear- 
ing flelh, as carnivorous animals do, with their claws, and 
fharp teeth ; and even, when we feed on flefli, it is not 
without a preparative concoction, by boiling, roafting, baking, 
^c, and even io, we forbid it to perfons in a fever, or other 
like diftempers, as of too hard digeftion; and children, before 
their palates are vitiated by cuftom, are more fond of fruits, 
than of flefh-meat; and their breeding worms is wont to be 
imputed to their too early feeding on flefli : This ingenious 
(tonjeflurc of Gajfendus, did prefently fuggcft to the Dr. 
another fpeculation, which feems no lefs confiderable ; viz. 
there is in fwine, fheep, oxen, and he thinks, in moft qua- 
drupeds, that feed on herbs or plants, a long Colon with a 
Ccecnm at the upper end of it, or fomewhat equivalent, which 
conveys the food by along and large progrefsfrom the ftomach 
downward.^, in order to a flower paflage, and longer fl:ay in 
theinteftinesj but in dogs of feveral kinds, and hefuppofes, in 
foxes, wolves;, and divers other animals, which are carnivo- 
rous, fuch Colov is wanting; and inftead thereof, is a more 
/horc and flender gut, and a quicker pafTage thro the intef- 
tines ; 
