An exposition of the prophecy of Hosea begun in divers lectures upon the first…An exposition of the prophesie of Hosea begun in divers lectures vpon the first…

It appears it was so between Judah and Israel. I will give you but one Text for it, 2 Chr. 28. 9. The Prophet Obed tells the children of Israel, when he came to reprove them after the slaughter committed by them upon the children of Judah, saith he, Ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up to heaven. What a rage was this this? and yet thus the people of Israel were enraged against the people of Judah, their opposition was very bitter, yea, more bitter were they many times one against another, then they were against the Heathen, the Philistines, and Assyrians, and Egyptians that were round about them, they were nothing so bitter against them, as they were one against another.

It appears it was so between Judah and Israel. I will give you but one Text for it, 2 Chr. 28. 9. The Prophet Obed tells the children of Israel, when he came to reprove them after the slaughter committed by them upon the children of Judah, saith he, Ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up to heaven. What a rage was this this? and yet thus the people of Israel were inraged against the people of Iudah, their opposition was very bitter, yea, more bitter were they many times one against another, then they were against the Heathen, the Philistims, and Assyrians, and Egyptians that were round about them, they were nothing so bitter against them, as they were one against another.

Thus it hath been, and (until that blessed time come that here is spoken of in the Text) thus it will be. You know the Calvinists and Lut he rans, though they agree together against Papists in the main fundamental things, yet •h the bitterness of their spirits one against another! A Lutheran is ⟨p. 95⟩scarce so bitter against a Papist as he is against a Calvinist. Luther himself complaineth,¹