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A60436	The fruits of unrighteousnes and injustice Brought forth by John Bulkley, and Thomas Bowrman, and the rest of the rulers in Hampshire, against the innocent people of God called Quakers. Who in words and writings have often declared their unjust sufferings; as also at two sessions, and two general assizes holden at Winchester, requiring justice and equity, and their right and liberty in the nation; of the which being still most unjustly deprived, it is now publiquely declared, that they and others seeing their deeds of darknesse brought to light, may be warned, and learn to do justice, and to relieve the oppressed. Also the sounding voyce of the dread of Gods mighty power to all the judges and rulers of the earth, who rise up aginst the Lamb, and to all the host of powers of darknesse who fight against God. By the servants of Christ ... called Humphry Smith. Anthony Melledg. George Henderson. James Potter. Will: Baily. Daniel Baker. John Day. Winifred Newman.	Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1658 (1658)	Wing S4061; ESTC R216933	45,374	58

sentest me to prison with others as a wanderer and now thou wouldest have me give security to stay at home and so to stay from the Parish in which I was born and I did give thee an account that I was born in that Parish and so thou canst not cover thy selfe with saying that I refused to give thee an accu●● and then thou mentions termes of high disrespect brought me under commitment in the mittimus thou said it was for several misdemeanors done at Poulnar though both are false and then wherein art thou to be respected and then to cover thy own respecting of persons thou said others carrying themselves civilly were dismissed which others were John Fry and William Fry who may be men of hundreds a year who with us did not respect thy person though thou aidest respect theirs and said to John Fry thou would shew him all the civill respect as may be and then though thou say I lye under a spirit of error yet thou writ yours John Bulkley which if true then thou art his that is in error but being not true it turnes back upon thee and as for thy prayers I say as he did whose Eyes Christ opened to see beyond all the Hypocrites who cast out him who said we know that God heareth not sinners W. B. It may be observed that William Bayly was born in the Parish that John Bulkley dwelleth and sent him to prison from whereby his folly and madness to all men may appear and that he requires security of him to stay from that Parish where he was born and several people at the same time acquainted him that he was born there wherefore J. B. was ashamed to write the Parish name in the Mittimus but left it vvith a blank as may be seen And in the Mittimus mentions his commiting to be for several misdemeanors and in his next paper he saith it was for refusing to give a ready account of his place of abode with termes of high disrespect and at the assizes he said it was because he would not tell his name and the fourth time he said it was because he would not speak that he sent him to prison which was all far from Truth and if he did not speak how is it that he gave termes of high disrespect may not all people see the madness and folly of John Bulkley who was somewhat offended because it was tould him though not by William Bayly that he was a silly man when he began this blinde persecution with unfound words and actions the which if his words writings and unjust actions hath not already made manifest it may farther appear when his inside is farther discovered A Copy of a Letter to John Bulkley WHat canst thou have more then our lives having first deprived us of our right and liberty in the Nation and taken men up from their Lawful business which they were going upon for the maintenance of them and their families and send them to prison without the least ground of offence according to Law or any Law transgressed and in prison keep them until their bodies had suffered so much in a little time that thou thy selfe took notice that their bodies were altered and countenances changed and then thou promised to speak to the judge for them who did not seek it of thee but gave up their bodies as a living sacrifice then in stead of speaking to the Judge thou did vent forth what thou couldst against them that which was false to at the assize whereby now they who are incent are cast into Bridewel and lyable to whipping blowes nakedness lowsiness and the want of all necessaries and what ever may be inflicted upon our weak bodies by most unreasonable and ungodly men who before we were thus committed to their power did inflict so much upon us that we were sometimes hardly able to bear it as thy own man was something sensible of and the Light of Christ in thy own conscience will let thee see the same though we were not apt to complain but leave it to the Lord who will plead our cause and clear our innocency in the day of his power And this would I lay before thine eyes that thou may be left without excuse that William Bayly having had an ague long and not forth of the town he dwelt in a long time and now hardly able to go though with us about his Lawful occations since he came to prison taken much cold with what was before if he or either of us perish under thy cruelty will not his blood be required at thy hand in the day when the wo will come upon all them that offend the innocent Lambs of Jesus Christ and what is it now that thou seeks after but onely our lives or imprisonment until death being thou hast got an order to keep us in Bridewel until we promise to go or stay at home thou knowing from us that we cannot make that promise and if thou wouldest make mens own houses their Prisons by confining them thereunto and not go forth upon their occasions then should we lose that right and liberty which we long fought for Therefore consider thy actions and bring not innocent blood upon thy head for by the zealous professors did Christ suffer and sufferings is our portion but wo to them by whom the offence commeth for the Lord God of life and power will plead our cause and a witness we have for us in thy own Conscience which when thou art alone will plead our innocency and in secret reprove thee for having a hand against the members of Christ of the which we are who now suffer under thy will though not by the transgression of any Law of England in the which we are free born and known by the Names of H.S. A.M. W.B. A Copy of John Bulkleys Letter to the woman Goaler Mrs. Hobs. I Am informed that the three Quakers are often punished by whipping which though I suppose it done in obedience to the Judges last order whereof I am ignorant being then absent from the bench or else that you would not do it yet in regard of their weak and sickly condition as I am informed I desire you to forbear any farther corporal correction and to afford them convenient accommodation till the approaching sessions when perhaps they may satisfy the bench that they will return home and forbear rambling abroad this from your Friend John Bulkley March the 26. 1658 We having made it appear that we are no wanderers thy own hand writing will stand a witness against thy self and for the innocency of our suffering under thy corrupt will who having no evil to charge us with doest keep our weake bodies under affliction until we give security or promise to stay at home and we do not read of any such blind persecutors as thee in all the Scriptures and here all people may see the fruits of thy wickedness who hast caused the harmles Lambs

we purchase our liberty by speaking words of promising to go home seeing you hear already that we cannot make such promises knowing no law requiring us thereunto An answer to these things would we willingly receive in writing from some of you that both your ground and your end might from you be knovvn vvherefore vve are deprived of our right and liberty in the Nation and kept in long imprisonment At the Assizes vvhen the Judge vvas about to send us avvay a Justice so called spake to him that vve might be put in the house of Correction And the same day vvhen George and Christopher Darby vvere examined by the Judge the youngest of the Darbies could not then give a ready ansvver then one called a Justice bid him say that he vvas going into the Countrey to see friends and so joyned vvith a high-vvay Robber and before all the Court vvould have taught him to make lyes his refuge who was afterwards with his brother condemned for high way robbing but being reprieved since with others have much abused us and so they neither suffer according to your Law by which they were to dye neither yet do they suffer according to the righteous Law of God which is to restore four fold And moreover they and such as them have liberty to act even almost all manner of desperate wickednesse in the Prison night day by which our souls do suffer and such as these one called a Justice spake as for and we who fear the Lord another called a Justice spake as against whereby we were put into and kept in the house of Correction and so cause us to suffer beyond the extent of any law And is not this according to them who said and did release Barabbas and crucifie the Just Wherefore ye men minde the witnesse of God in all your consciences and come into his fear that you may love mercy do justly and walk humbly that the just in every one of you may have dominion and then the imprisoned members of Christ will not need to cry unto you for justice and equity Your answer to them you may return who certainly are the servants of God in outward bonds but the Darbies are since released Now let all peoples mouths be stopt for ever from saying we that are called Quakers are not subject to Authority nor obedient to the Law for if we for conscience sake cannot actually be obedient to an unjust Law yet if passively we willingly suffer the punishment which that Law saith is to be inflicted upon him that doth not keep it then therein is that Law also by us fulfilled and hath no more power over us who herein are obedient to Authority and submit to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake But our souls are subject to the higher power which rules over all them who are in the persecuting powers of darknesse who though they be set to be Ministers of a Law and acting without a Law contrary to the Law are found themselves transgressors of the Law being out of the feare and Law of God and out of the Law of the Nation And so they are far out and from that of which Authority consistech and indeed out of all power both of God and man in their own wills ruling with cruelty over others in the power of Darkness We having thus endeavoured by using all means which is just in the sight of God for our right and liberty and having remained close Prisoners many weekes without convenient place to worke though we were committed to the work-house we then endeavoured to get room and liberty to work with our hands and therefore one of us did write unto him by whom we were unjustly committed as followeth John Bulkley THou alone art the cause of my imprisonment almost these nine weeks in which I have almost suffered to the death of my body being also sicke when I was brought to prison among those in whose company wert thou but one night it would make thy flesh to tremble and grieve thy soul if thou feared God to hear see the filthy conversation of the wicked from day to day the like wickednesse I do believe was not found in Sodome nor in the old World whom God destroyed with an utter overthrow Oh! consider a little in the feare of the righteous God who is the righteous Judge of all mankind whether thou hast done unto me as thou wouldst be done unto who am a sufferer under thy hand of oppression for righteousnesse sake both in body and soule being grieved and vexed with the abominations that I daily hear and see and the injustice and unreasonableness of them by whom we suffer where also we are deprived of all outward liberty without cause which in the day of visitation the witnesse of God in thee for me shall witnesse and this action of thine against the innocent in that day will be as a milstone about thy neck and as a fiery flaming worm to eate thy flesh Yea and if thou proceed in the evill that is in thy hands and repent not speedily when thou wilt think peace to thy selfe then will thy sudden destruction come as in a moment from the Lord God who is a swift witnesse against all iniquity and unrighteousnesse of men without respect of persons Therefore once more consider and weigh thy actions in the just ballance even by the light of Christ in thy conscience which will let thee see by what measure thou metest it will be measured to thee again And this is right and according as God will judg and reward every man to which that of God in thy conscience do witnesse though for a time thou mayst strive to hide and vaile it for the honour of the worlds sake and the love of the praise of men but what will this avail or profit thee in the day wherein thou wilt be justly weighed and tryed then to be found by the Judge of all the Earth to be a persecutor of his people and anointed ones for whose sake he will rebuke Kings and will fight our battels and plead our cause in righteousnesse Therefore do we stand still in quietnesse to see his salvation and a freedome from the oppression of all wickednesse and wicked men under whom for a time the just do suffer I do not vvrite to thee as to complain to thee but am contented in my sufferings for my God heares the sighing of his prisoners neither do I expect any thing from thee but equity and justice of vvhich thou bearest the name but actest not in the lifethereof so in the day of try all vvilt be found among the hypocrites bearing the name of that thou neither art nor livest in I must deale plainly vvith thee though under thy povver I should suffer death this I can say I have no envy to thy person nor to any man upon the earth God is my vvitnesse neither dare I give flattering titles to any man for in so doing I should be

that by it you may be lead out of the world and out of all its wayes fashions customes and traditions which are evill up unto God to serve and worship him alone who is a jealous God and will not give his glory unto another who will bring down the mighty from their ungodly seats and will exalt the meeke and the lowly and all that are proud and do wickedly and all that persecute and make a prey upon the innocent shall be as the chaffe before an unquencheable fire And the loftinesse of man shall be bowed downe and his haughtinesse laid low in this the day of his mighty power in which he is arising to shake terribly the earth to give unto mystery Babylon and all her Merchants that are trading with her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath and all who worship the Beast or his Image and are joyned together with him making war against the Lamb and his followers shall have their portion together in the Lake that burns for ever James Pottar Having thus let the cause appear of the committing of other friends under their own hands and having not been wanting before in sending writing unto the Rulers to lay their unjust retaining of us in bo nds before them thereby to attain our just liberty but being most like at present to be deprived thereof seeing that they commit more also unto Prison we willingly together gave up our bodies to suffer if it were untill death and onely sought to have the liberty to worke as before was mentioned therefore we writ as followeth and sent it to them called Justice Cobb and Justice Betsworth WE whose consciences are clear in the sight of the living God that we have not injured nor wronged any person neither broke the Law of God whose witness will abide in us for ever that we are this day in bonds for the testimony of a a good conscience under the cruel oppression of men of sin who have taken several of us out of our honest lawful employments and in prison kept us from our labours which we should labour in for the maintenance of our selves and families whose souls do abhor idleness neither dare we eat any mans bread for nought and by this unjust imprisonment have many of us suffered much because we could not proceed in our present occasions some of our families also wanting us much whose wives are left as Widows and children as the fatherless And seeing mens hearts continue so hard as to keep us so long in bonds from our businesse therefore we have endeavoured to have liberty to work with our hands in the Prison something whereof having been granted by order in writing from John Bulkley We being in all 7 persons kept always close prisoners and what abuses and hard-ships we have suffered we mention little herein who are not only deprived of our way of livelyhood and liberty in the Nation but also restrained from having that liberty which the rest of the servants of God have in most or in all Prisons in England which is of having liberty for one or more of us to go forth into the Town to buy food and to provide other necessaries for the rest and for want of this liberty we have often wanted water to drink and sometimes bread to eat and other things when some of us have been sick yet have we not troubled you with many complaints herein but in secret have we powred forth our souls with prayers and tears unto the Lord God of life who seeth all our wants and knoweth our innocency and in his due time can us deliver but if not to the Devill we cannot bow for our soules are subject to the higher power which preserved them that broke the decrees and commands of men which is more then is justly charged upon us Esther 3. 2. Dan. 3. Dan. 6. Act. 4. 17 18. Now the thing which we write for is that which is just in the sight of God and but reasonable in the sight of any reasonable Minister of the Law which law they themselves say should be grounded upon reason which thing is we being six men and one woman that she the aforesaid woman whose name is Winifred Newman or any other of us may have liberty to go forth and buy bring in other needful things for the rest of us that so we may no more be put to the extreamity of want nor to the charge of hiring another to do that for us which we might well do our selves who have been at great charge already besides other losse and that she or another of us may also bring work in and out for us and such things as may be needfull for us to work with and upon And that she or either of us having this liberty granted shal be as a prisoner without the least intent of running away we shall all engage and promise so far as men fearing God can promise herein that which we chiefly intend is combing of Wool A speedy answer or order in writing herein is expected according to justice desired by the members of Christ in Prison house of Correction at Winchester whose names are Anthony Melledg William Baily Humphrey Smith James Pottar Daniel Baker George Henderson and Winifred Newman THis Paper was directed and sent to Justice Cobb and Justice Betsworth as they were called but was chiefly intended for Justice Cobb who was as Judge at the Sessions before who being without naturall affection denyed the members of Christ in prison this so reasonable a thing the which then I laid before the under-Sheriffe and read a Copie of the Paper to him he being then in the Prison who granted the thing to be but reasonable whereby it doth appeare that he and them that should do Justice were unreasonable in denying that which was reasonable and he said as the Justices did that it was not in his power then I asked him in whose power it was to grant this reasonable thing seeing both Justices Sherif and Goaler had denyed it then he referred me to one Browning but suddenly I was informed that he was a Papist and so I laid the unreasonableness of it upon him that we of whom some had been Captains and others long serviceable for liberty from under Popish Tyranny should be now deprived of all Justice and Equity and referred only to the the mercy of a Popish man Oh the cruelty and hard heartedness of the Sons of men who can read it without mourning no Transgressor in the prison but might be heard nor the cause of any thief so turned aside but the Lord of mercy was our refuge who is a present help in time of need and can never forget his Covenant nor for sake his afflicted who abide faithfull who in his mercy preserveth his Servants but overturneth his enemies for ever and be did visit for these things and began to avenge himselfe on his adversaries though his Lambs rejoyceth not

when the enemies falleth nor in that the Devils are made subject but in that there names are written among the living but in our affliction I writ the a foregoing paper and sent it to Justice Cob and Betsworth upon the 11. day of the 4. moneth the 6. day of the week and upon the 16. day of the same moneth the 4. day of the week at night the a foresaid Justice Cob was suddenly cut off though no outward eye saw how wch was to the astonishment of his family and many more And the man which the Justice and Priest Bental caused to swear falsly against James Pottar the same man was since that time bruised torn and spoyled with a horse and harrows so that he died very shortly after being before troubled in conscience for what he had sworn yet notwithstanding Scripture is fulfilled when the Lords hand is lifted up they will not see but they shall see and be ashamed And it may be observed that we had sent several other papers to the Justice Cob some whereof are herein written all which he little regarded he being a great enemy to Truth and a Persecutor of friends he being as a judge at another sessions was not satisfied with the committing of Stephen Bevis to the house of correction who was before committed by Col. Norton to the common Goal for hearing testimony against Priest Simons false Doctrine but also gave order that he should not be suffered to work at his trade but be put to pounding of hemp or some harder work though he declared his willingness in open court to work at his trade A Copy of a paper to the sessions You at whose hands the dreadful God of life and his Servants doth require right and sound judgement to be by you performed at this present sessions at Winchester LEt our several causes be heard and read in open court and let our innocent sufferings appear in the Light before the eyes of the people and let them by whom we suffer be made manifest and do not shut up things in darkness as at the last sessions not suffering the cause of them who are oppressed to be read in the open Court wherein and in many other things we have been deprived of that which is just and right the wch i● proceeded in will even be a shame unto you for justice Equity and true Judgement is that we do both expect and would gladly see brought forth in you therefore do not wait to lay farther snares to betray the simple whereby to cover that oppression some of you have acted in against the Servants of the living God but let the fear of God guide you that sound Judgement you may come unto whereby rightly to understand what or what manner of evil we have done or what Law of God we have broken and what accusations are against us with the ground and cause of those accusations and take heed of entertaining false witness or joyning with it or forcing men to swear against the members of Christ contrary to Gods witness in them as Thomas Bowrman hath done and if any thing be or hath been proved or any one falsely accused either of the Servants of God or any other you are to see that you do not punish such accused above or beyond the fact or crime charged against them and herein all that rule for God are and should be guided with an understanding heart in the spirit of wisdom and knowledge as Moses Joshua Solomon and others were that none may be oppressed by wrong Judgement nor insnared because of envy and prejudice which lodgeth in the deceitful hearts of men who are out of Gods fear For we who are in scorn called Quakers do wait to have true Judgement set up in the earth in righteousness established in and among the Sons of men and are friends unto and Lovers of all them who judge for God without respect of persons and a praise to them that do well And he that reproves a Hireling that stands praying in the Synagogue doth well for Esaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel Micah Malachiah Hosea and Christ and Paul and Peter did reprove and bear testimony against such and for the same things are the members of Christ in your dayes haled out of the Synagogues brought before Rulers and cast into Prison whom you should be a praise unto for therein they do well being moved of the Lord thereunto whose mouthes by men of sin are not to be stopped though they would have us or command us to speak no more in his name who maketh an end of sin and said I am the Light of the world whose Light hath led us out of evil and so are become a prey unto an adulterous generation that know not God whose love in our hearts hath constrained us to obey him rather then man in that wherein man would hinder us in our obedience unto God whose power worketh in ●s mightily which keepeth us from under the bondage of mans corrupt will yet to the higher power our souls are subject even to that power which preserved them who broke the Commands and Decrees of men Hest 3. 2. Dan. 3. Dan. 6 Acts 4. 17. 18. Several papers have we sent to you who should do Justice of our unjust and unreasonable sufferings in prison and little hath it been by you regarded one of which papers we sent by a friend to John Hook called a Justice of Bramshot which friend since gave us an account in writing that when he came to deliver the paper John Hooks Clerk beat him in the house and others also abused him and after he was gone out of the house another who belonged to the house followed him and in a Lane did beat him and kick him very much and this was very evil which you are to punish Here followeth a short Relation of something of the cause of the committing and retaining of the members of Christ in prison Anthony Melledg William Baily Humphrey Smith IMprisoned two weeks without the breach of any Law and since kept in the House of Correction about 17 weeks from their business and from their home because they cannot promise to go home who know no law requiring them to make any such promise and where there is no law there is no transgression Winif. Newman Imprisoned for speaking a few sober words to the hireling Priest who cannot cease from sin 2 Pet. 2 14. after he had ended she being before a servant to a Widow and fatherless and so the hireling Priest by causing her to be imprisoned hath caused both she the widow and the fatherlesse to suffer Daniel Baker Geo Henderson Imprisoned for speaking words of truth to the same Priest and people which Priest said that God was author of evill And another Priest before the Magistrate wrested the Scripture to affirm that Christ did swear when he said Verily verily John Day Imprisoned for reproving the same hireling Priest Robert Dingly who confest he and his flock were full of

sin and evill which also doth appear by their envy and persecution which is of the Devill James Pottar Imprisoned without the breach of any law and fined at the following Assizes 5 l. because he could not transgresse the Law of God by respecting of persons to satisfie the lusts and corrupt wills of men in not putting off his hat when he was brought to the said Assizes of whom also is demanded 3 l. for fees who have been kept a close prisoner under these cruell oppressions 59 weeks and some dayes From them who are not onely ready to suffer bonds and long unjust imprisonments but also death it self if the Lord require it of us in testimony against all Deceivers and all manner of unrighteousnesse and oppressions and we are friends to the Common-wealth and to equity and true judgement having true love to the souls of all mankinde who for the testimony of a pure conscience are Prisoners by the corrupt wills of men in the Common Gaol and house of Correction at Winton At this last Sessions D. B. G. H. I. D. were committed to the House of Correction being prisoners before the which them set to do justice would not have done if they had not looked out more at the unrighteous hireling Priests vain customes and the glory of the world which shall all perish then to the light of Christ which endureth for ever in their consciences which did then much judge them for what they did against the servants of God and let them see their evill therein the which Light they are to love obey and follow From the servant of God in Prison to the Judge of the Assize at Winchester A Copie of a Paper to the Assizes THe righteous Judge of heaven and earth who respecteth not the persons of the mighty who tryeth the hearts of Kings who is the mighty God of Abraham Isaac Jacob and their seed who wandred up and down some having no certain dwelling place even he who seeth the secret intents of the hearts of the sons of men whose judgements are just and true who rewardeth the proud in his judgements and heareth the cry of the oppressed who will reprove Kings for the sake of the simple and forsaketh not his faithfull afflicted ones who by the man Christ Jesus will judge the secrets of all mens hearts according to his light in them whereby every man shall receive a just recompence of reward according to all their words and actions whether for or against him and his people Wherefore this O man thou art to know that true ●ight and sound judgement is to be by thee performed according to the righteous Law of God which is written in the heart that corrupt judgement cruelty persecution nor receiving of gifts nor entertaining false witness may not be found in thee nor in any of them that Joine with thee whether they are called Sheriffs Justices Jury men Clarks or any other but that according to the Law of God in his fear thou may perform that which the Lord God of hosts certainly will require of thee in the day when all the arme of flesh and honour of the world will not prevent the true everlasting judgments of the most high with fierce wrath and indignation upon all them who pervert true judgment and transgress the righteous Law of God written in the heart The which that thou may not do nor see done before thine eys when thou may prevent it and that thou may escape the wrath of the Almighty which will certainly come upon all who pervert judgment and that in the councell of God thou may come to stand in meeknesse and godly fear to judge for God not for man that his will by thee may be performed that when thou come to stand before the Throne of his eternal judgments thou may not be turned to the left hand with them that forget God and turn his Law behind their backs and oppress his servants and neither visit relieve nor set at liberty the members of Christ in Prison who in these your dayes are in most Prisons where thou come and in Prison have been sick and deprived of that liberty which Thieves and Murtherers have that thou may come to be joyned to Gods witness with it in thee to see rightly to understand the ground and cause of things of which thou art to judge Therefore art thou to be guided by the light in thee which comes from Christ who is the sure foundation and was before-transgression by which the transgression is seen and with it is to be judged which light in thee will let thee see the ground of all transgression by the same out of transgression thou art to be led and then to judge over that which is in the transgression that so those who dare not transgress the righteous law of God thou mayst be a praise unto and all such who reprove sin in the gate market places publick assemblies or els-where and that all who transgress the law of God with that of God in thy conscience thou may be a terrour unto executing true judgment upon that head wch goeth forth from the light into the transgression for that is it for which the Law is added which by the Law which is perfect is to be judged that out of the transgression man may be kept Therefore hear with meekness and in patience understand and consider my words for all the holy men of God who ruled for God and not for men were therein guided by that which is holy pure just and right whereby they were guided in his fear to execute his judgments only upon the transgressor according to the will of him by whom otherwise they themselves were to be judged and they were guided by that spirit in them which gave forth the Law and with that joyned to execute the Law upon them that did transgress the law of God with whom in so doing they were said to be a help-government and such were called Gods who bore not the sword in vain standing in the higher power to which their souls were subject to bring the transgressor in obedience thereunto but such who did not transgress the righteous law of God their souls were already subject to that higher power but when man who should rule for God stood not in his councel but went themselves into the transgression out of the power and judged for reward such the light in them was darkned that they could not see the transgressor but let him go free and punish the just as Pilate and many others did even in the dayes of the Prophets who then cryed out against them because they were become as ravening wolves and then of such it is written I said ye were gods but ye shall dye like men and fall as one of the Princes and because of wrong judgment and the want of true exercise in the perfect law of God have many fallen and been overturned even Kings Princes Parliaments Bishops