And so Cain and his Successors have set up a potent Kingdom, from whence Dominion proceeds, whereby one Brother aspires above another, and has made them Slaves. And thus horrible Tyranny has been hatched, and the Potent has done whatsoever he listed; he has oppressed the Needy at his Pleasure; he has got to him the Kingdom of the Earth, and therewith exercises Tyranny, Wickedness, and Wrong, and yet Men must say to him, it is right; he has contrived all Sorts of Policy and cunning Devices, and made Laws of them [and established them for Right,] and afterwards sold them to others for Rights, and has brought up his Children with Wickedness and Falsehood. He has beaten down the Conscience of the Simple-hearted in his good Meaning; he has invented Rights, which in his Laws serve to promote his Deceit, contrary to the Light of Nature; all Reproach and Blasphemies have subsisted in his Strength and Authority, whereby he has terrified the Simple-hearted, that his Power might be great.

Those that are in authority and power suck the very marrow from the bones of men of low degree and rank, and feed upon the sweat of their brows. Brief...