And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.
Ver. 6. Entreated them spitefully and slew them] This is that sin which brings ruin without remedy,2 Chronicles 36:16. Josiah's humiliation could not expiate Manasseh's bloodshed. Our Popish prelates in less than four years sacrificed the lives of eight hundred innocents to their idols here in Queen Mary's days. That precious blood doth yet cry to heaven for vengeance against us. And it was a pious motion that one made in a sermon to this present parliament, that there might be a day of public humiliation, purposely set apart, and solemnly kept throughout the kingdom, for the innocent bloodshed here in those Marian days of most abhorred memory.