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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87471	Regales aphorismi or a royal chain of golden sentences, divine, morall, and politicall, as at severall times, and on several occasions they were delivered by King James. Collected by certain reverend and honourable personages attending on his Majesty.	James I, King of England, 1566-1625.; Stratton, W., editor.	1650 (1650)	Wing J143; Thomason E1408_1; ESTC R202612	37,307	219

both these are abominable if he give Alms onely for his reputation sake this is a wicked deed because there is Nullum medium whatsoever is not of faith is sin 120 No man shall do ill that thinks ere he undertakes what the end will be not what his passion would have it to be 121 Time is the essence of many Laws so that a King may do well at divers times both in making and marring the same law 122 I should think it a sign that God loves me not if I should kill a man by chance I would most unwillingly do that ill which it lies not in my power to amend 123 I do not think the greatest Clarks are nearest Heaven much of their knowledge is superfluous For Bellarmine makes 400. questions of faith and not ten of them which roucheth our Salvation to understand 124 Many have attempted to make glass malleable and so Gold artificiall but both in vain for God doth ever Crosse the invention of man least he should rejoice in his own work 125 The persons of all men are to be alike Equal to us and our hate or Love should onely go according to their Vertues or Vices These bonds of kindred should onely command us in all Civill duties but not our judgements And particular injuries should onely make us hate that particular deed but not the doer in generall 126 Men of high understanding as they do many things above the common strain so they often fall into greater errours than those of meaner capacity which in all their actions will rather do nothing faulty than any thing extraordinary being of a temper better mixt than the former 127 The Divell always avoids the mean and waits upon extremities so hath he sought to divide the world betwixt Atheism and superstition 128 All extremities come round to one end the simple obedience of the Papist and the no obedience of the Puritan the one breeds confusion the other Ignorance and security 129 The end of the Law is to punish sin when it is committed But to keep it from being committed it cannot As the Pope which thinks by allowing Fornication to avoid Adultery 130 That the wearing of Leeks on Saint Davids day by the Welch-men was a good honourable and commendable fashion seeing that all memorable acts have by their Agents something worn for distinction and also to preserve the memory thereof unto posterity even as the Passeover was to the Jews that when their children should ask 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 do wear leeks as their chosen Ensign 131 That an infallid thing may be discerned and known by a fallid means as for example our sences are fallid but by them we know many things infallid c. whence the Papists infer that because the Church is visible therefore the chief Head must be visible The universal Church consisteth of two parts one visible the other invisible to wit a visible body and an invisible Spirit and therefore the chief Head of the Church should rather be invisible but we grant many visible Substitutes over the Church as subordinate Rulers under the chief 132 His Majesty observed a queint Interrogatory put to a jealous Lover out of that famous Comedy of Ignoramus the which his Majesty highly commended viz. whether he desired most or rather to be termed Publius Cornelius or Cornelius Tacitus In further approbation of which Comedy besides in opposition and dislike of another Comedy performed and acted before his Majesty by the Schollers of the University of Oxford that as in Cambridg one Sleep made him Wake so in Oxford one Wake made him Sleep 133 Concerning that saying That the gates of hell shall not prevail c. that therefore their Church of Rome cannot fall because of the certainty of Gods promise to his Church which they falsly attribute unto themselves The question onely remains in the circumstance of time as between their Church and the true Church to wit whether it be already past or shall be hereafter for they deny not but there shall be a general defection and Antichrist shall be revealed c. but they deny it yet to be and we say it is already past and fulfilled in themselves But his Majesties absolute determination on this point was The question between them and us to be the same which is yet between the Jews and Christians for they deny not but that a Messiah and Saviout must and shall come and yet have him in a dayly expectation but the Christian holdeth that he is come already and hath been in the world and hath performed all things preappointed of God his eternal Father even such or the very like is the question between the Papists and Protestants concerning the right and true worship of that Messiah The Church Militant his Majesty compared to the Moon so full of changes his reason for this opinion he gave was for that he could not see a Church in any place peaceably setled but before he could duly consider thereof he forthwith perceived the face of it changed except it were those of Germany and the low Countryes as the Lutherans and Calvinists 134 God is never better honoured than in giving him true worship and in loving good men The King at that time declared himself resolved always to kneel at the Sacrament and that for to testifie his humility toward God being a King and the rather for example sake to others that are set under him he said he would not retain willingly a Gout in the knee alluding to Doctor Lawds Sermon a little before made upon that subject His Majesty confessed the Gout in the knee very troublesome and offensive indeed and that by a particular experiment of his own upon an accidental hurt which he received on his foot at Newmarket being to receive the holy Communion on Christmasse day following and resolved to take the same kneeling as aforesaid provoked his whole body into a very great sweat anguish and therefore concluded the Gout in the knee to be a main impediment for sacred Duties and so conceived it the easier way to sit and then the mind might have the better opportunity to rove and wander after other prophane and wanton cogitations His Majesty did acknowledge that we could never do too much worship toward God should we not said he exceed the Turks who in their false worship do fall often flat on their faces and rise often in the night to perform false worship and this they are injoyned to do or otherwise they account themselves damned he confessed that too much worship might be rendred to our Lady and other Saints but doubtlesse never too much to God and Christ his anointed On the contrary his Majesties opinion concerning the essence of Gods Deitie and how some will seem to flatter him c. 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