Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes toward your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?
Ver. 25. Ye eat with the blood.] Which wicked Saul would not do, 1Sa 14:32-34 much less would righteous Abraham have done it, since it was against the light and letter of the law. Gen 9:4 Lev 7:26 Deu 12:16 Nay, ye do worse things; and are you Abraham's children, and heirs of the promised land, together with that faithful patriarch? I think not. See a like manner of reasoning, Mic 2:7 John 8:39. So the learned Linaker, having read our Saviour's sermon in the mount, and considering how little it is lived among us, broke out into these words, Certainly either this is not gospel, or we are not right gospellers.