Then; so soon as I saw what value they put upon me, or presently after the casting them off from the covenant, and unchurching them. I; Christ did it really, the prophet did it in the type. Cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands; took no further care to keep them in civil peace among themselves, but left them to their seditious humours and inhuman animosities. Religion, which is true, is the best bond of peace, friendship, and love; when the Jews cast off religion, and murdered their Lord, next they fall to murdering one another. That I might break; declare it broken, leave them to show it was broken. The brotherhood; that friendship which had been among them. Between Judah, the two tribes, and Israel, the remnant of the ten tribes, which fell into most unnatural seditions after the death of Christ, till the taking of Jerusalem by the Romans.

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