John Trapp on Matthew 22:6

Verse 6. Intreated them spitefully, and slew [illegible: 1 word] ] This is that sinne that brings ruine without remedy, 2 Chron. 36. 16. Josiahs humiliation could not expiate Manasseh's bloud-shed. Our Popish Prelates in lesse then four years sacrific'd the lives of eight hundred innocents to their idols here in Queen [illegible: 1 word] daies. That precious bloud doth yet cry to heaven for vengeance against us. And it was a pious motion that one made in a Sermon to this [illegible: 1 word]. [illegible: 1 word]. present Parliament, That there might be a day of publike humiliation, purposely set apart, and solemnly kept thorowout the Kingdom, for the innocent bloud shed [illegible: 1 word] in those Marian daies of most abhorred memory.