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sense_n	church_n	invisible_a	visible_a	2,874	5	9.2871	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46413	King James, his apopthegmes, or table-talke as they were by him delivered occasionally and by the publisher (his quondam servant) carefully received, and now humbly offered to publique view, as not impertinent to the present times / by B.A. gent.	Agar, Ben, 17th cent.; James I, King of England, 1566-1625.	1643 (1643)	Wing J127; ESTC R8288	14,692	16

KING JAMES HIS APOPTHEGMES OR TABLE-TALKE AS THEY VVERE BY Him delivered Occasionally AND By the publisher His quondam Servant carefully received AND Now humbly offered to publique view as Not impertinent to the present Times By B. A. Gent. London printed by B. W. 1643. The Preface or Induction to the Reader AS the Queen of Sheba declared the servants of Solomon to be happy which stood continually before him and that heard his wisdome 1 King 10. 8. I may as confidently affirm that never since hath any Age produced a Prince of so neere affinity or resemblance unto him who of so ample indowments in wisdome judgement and equity hath enlarged himselfe in his life time witnesse the many and manifold unparalelled Trophies of his excellencies yet remaining which flowed not alone from his pen and indefatigable dexterity but sacred lips also by eloquent discourses as well as profound documents and deep Commentaries whereof a late extraction is yet extant in view I therefore conceived it a needfull duty in pious imitation of the former to revive the memory of so just and learned a master in his ordinary discourses and Table-talke accounting my selfe the most happy though least worthy of many to partake of such gracious opportunities which those Halcian dayes did plentifully afford conceiving it might be objected against me as a piece of ingratitude to have deprived the time or posterlty of such Gems and inferences meet for discourse upon contingent occasions These were heedfully observed and carefully taken from the sacred mouth of the first Speaker King JAMES of famous memory accidentally falling long time since upon discourse and Table-talke at open meales in his Majesties royall presence or privy Chamber doubtlesse in the hearing and yet perfect remembrance of divers of his Majesties neere servitu●es and attendants yet living they were assiduously collected as well at his Majesties own standing houses as also in his forraigne progresse both in England and Scotland with the sundry times and places when where and upon what occasions or arguments they were uttered a Catalogue whereof I have presumed hereafter to insert for some peculiar use of these refractory times all which I may boldly affirme have been providently preserved and newly revised and published in times of distemper and distraction who knoweth otherwise then to make good and accomplish the ancient and moderne prophesies and predictions of those contingencies which have reference to the Royall Person of so incomparable a Soveraign whereof some have had their period already in and upon his Person living and now since his decease may from his Corps and Ashes reflect some analogy and resemblance as for example in that of Mother Shepton That England should tremble and quake for dread A dead man that should speake c. Before I dare not conclude or determine but then in fine I am assured when together with that royall sacred and divine Spirit of his soule and body re-unite each single person no lesse members as glorious Saints of God with Angels and Archangels shall in a joyfull and heavenly Quire with the Church Triumphant sing Gloria in excelsis c. for evermore Amen To wa●● the Vulgars Cataract and quit each single stake I 've 〈◊〉 the light growne dim by what a dead King spake Per me B. A. KING IAMES HIS APOPTHEGMES OR TABLE-TALKE 1. THAT it is a Maxime in the Romish Religion declared by most of their own Writers That the Pope may if he will at one Masse free all the soules out of Purgatory His Majesties inference on this Position was with abnegation of the Popes Charity and admiration of his unparalel'd cruelty that being granted to have power so to doe doth not nor may not apply his will unto it If it were possible for one man to free all the world from hell ought he not to doe it c. 2. That the wearing of Leeks on St. Davids day by the Welchmen was a good honourable and commendable fashion seeing that all memorable acts have by their Agents something worne for distinction and also to preserve the memory thereof unto posterity even as the Passeover was to the Jews that when their children should aske why they went girded with staves in their hands they might shew them the cause c. So the Welchmen in commemoration of the great fight by their black Prince of Wales doe weare Leeks as their chosen Ensigne c. 3. At Cambridge c. That an infallid thing may be discerned and knowne by a fallid meanes as for example our senses are fallid but by them wee know many things infallid c. whence the Papists inferre that because the Church is visible therefore the chiefe Head must be visible The Universall Church consisteth of two parts one visible the other invisible to wit a visible body and an invisible spirit and therefore the chiefe Head of the Church should rather be visible but we grant many visible substitutes over the Church as subordinate Rulers under the Chiefe c. 4. His Majestie observed a quaint Interrogatory put to a jealous Lover out of that famous Comedy of Ignoramus the which his Majestie highly commended viz. whether he desired most or rather to be termed Publius Cornolius or Cornelius Tacitus In further approbation of which Comedie beside in opposition and dislike of another Comedie performed and acted before his Majestie by the Schollers of the Universitie of Oxford that as in Cambridge one Sleepe made him Wake so in Oxford one Wake made him Sleepe 5. Doctor Baily holding conference with the King touching the Popes Arrogancy alluding to Christs Answer to his Apostles He that desires to beare rule let him be the least among you and therefore the Pope doth sometimes colourably terme himselfe Servus Servorum c. To which the King replies that by such Argument or inference he could prove the Pope to be humbly minded to which the Doctor answeswered that he did not alwayes so account himselfe save onely when he had purpose to delude or deceive otherwise he esteemed himselfe Dominus Dominantium c. His Maiesties determination on the Point was that the Popes calling himselfe Servus Servorum c. was rather in a more strict and peculiar sence as th●t he was Servus Petri c. sive Mariae Virgims c. and so by consequence Servus servorum Dei c. toward all other Dominus Dominantium c. So likewise to be a professed Catholike is to be a true Christian but to be a Romane Catholike is it which marreth the matter It was the reproofe of the Donatists which were accounted Catholiques but confined their profession into one corner of Affrica So also the Romanists whereas the true Catholique is universall 6. At Edenbrough in Scotland tertio dei Junii Anno Dom. 1617. That whereas our Saviour saith It is as easie for a Camell to passe through the eye of an needle as for a rich man to enter into the Kingdome of Heaven c.