They cried aloud; as if Elijah had spoken the truth, and their god needed rousing. Cut themselves; mingling their own blood with their sacrifices; as knowing by experience, that nothing was more acceptable to their Baal (which was indeed the devil) than human blood, and hoping hereby to move their god to pity and help them. And this indeed was the practice of divers heathens in the worship of their false gods, as is manifest both from Scripture, as Leviticus 19:28 Deuteronomy 14:1 1 Kings 18:28, and from the express testimonies of Plutarch, Lucian, Apuleius, and many others.
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1 Kings 18:28
28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancets, till the bloode gushed out upon them.