Gods parley with princes with an appeal from them to him. The sum of…Gods parley vvith princes with an appeale from them to him. The summe of…

So here for a man to be robbed by the high-wayside, or to have his pocket or purse picked by a common Diver or Pick-purse, it is nothing so grievous: there is wrong and robbery in his own proper subject. But for the Judge that sitteth in the seat of justice to wring or wrong the party that sueth to him for right: to be as the bush, or the bramble (it is the Prophet ^aMicah's comparison) that teareth the fleece from the sheep, that flieth to it for succour and shelter against the storm: yea worse then bush or bramble, in stripping not the fleece only from the skin, but ^bthe skin also from the flesh, and the flesh from the bone; and so ^cpraying upon those, whom they ought to protect, worse then those, against whom they ought to protect them: for Judges and their Officers or Followers to be Partners and Sharers with Thieves and Murderers: (it is the Prophet ^dIsaiah's complaint:) When courses of law and justice are so perverted and corrupted, that (as ^eone of the Popes sometime said, and it is no other similitude then the Prophet ^fJeremiah long before him used:) ^gThe Suitors are as Fowls, the Pleaders as Fowlers, the Court the Floor or the Plot, and the Judge the Net: When ^hthe Counsellor treacherously betrayeth his Clients cause, whom he hath undertaken to defend; and ⟨p. 24⟩ⁱthe Judge setteth his doom and sentence to sale; and he that sitteth to reform sin, committeth sin there himself; he that is called to redress wrong, doth wrong there himself, and that to those that repair to him for right; and