King James Quotes
vs Rome:
"Whereby it ap- peareth that
Babylon, which is Rome, shall bee the Seate of the Antichrist; but not that
Ethnicke Romewhich was in the Apostles dayes (for
Iohn himselfe pro- fesseth that hee is to write of nothing, but that which is to come after his time.)
77 Nor yet that turning
Christian Rome while shee was in the conuerting, which immediatly followed the Apostles time, glorious by the Martyrdome of so many godly Bishops: But that
Antichristian Rome, when as the Antichrist shal set downe his seat there, after that by the working of that Mysterie of iniquitie,
Christian Rome shall become to be corrupted; and so that deadly wound, which the Gothes and Vandales gaue Rome, shall bee cured in that Head or King, the Antichrist, who thereafter shall arise and reigne for a long space"
View on the "Antichrist"
"Whereas if the
Antichrist shall reigne three yeeres and a halfe before the Latter day, and that there shall bee but iust fourtie flue dayes of time after his destruction; then shall not the iust day and houre of the Latter day, bee vnknowne to them that shall be aliue in the world, at the time of
Antichrists destruction. For first according to the Papists doctrine, all the world shall know him to be the
Antichrist, both by the two Witnesses doctrine, and his sudden destruction; And consequently they cannot be ignorant, that the Latter day shall come iust fourtie fiue dayes after: and so Christ shall not come as a thiefe, nor the world bee taken at vnawares; contrary to all the Scriptures before alleadged, and many more. And thus haue we proued Rome to be the Seat of the
Antichrist, and the second halfe of that spirituall Weeke betweene the first and second comming of Christ, to be the time of his Reigne: For in the first halfe thereof the mysterie of iniquitie began to worke; but the man of Sinne was not yet reuealed.
View on the Apocrypha:
"
As for the Scriptures; no man doubteth I will beleeue them: But euen for theApocrypha; I hold them in the same accompt that the Ancients did: They are still printed and bound with our Bibles, and publikely read in our Churches: I reuerence them as the writings of holy and good men: but since they are not found in the
Canon, wee accompt them to bee
secundæ lectionis, or
ordinis29 (which is
Bellarmines owne distinction) and therefore n
ot sufficient whereupon alone to ground any article of Faith, except it be confirmed by some other place of Canonicall Scripture; Concluding this point with
Ruffinus (who is no Nouelist, I hope) That the
Apocryphall books were by the Fathers permitted to be read;
nor for confirmation of Doctrine, but onely for instruction of the people."
View on Mary:
And first for the blessed Virgin Marie, I yeeld her that which the Angel
Gabrielpronounced of her, and which in her
Canticle shee prophecied of herselfe: that is, That she
30 is blessed amongst women, and That all generations
31 shall call her blessed. I reuerence her as the Mother of Christ, whom of our Sauiour tooke his flesh, and so the Mother of God, since the Diuintie and Humanitie of Christ are inseparable. And I freely confesse, that shee is in glory both aboue Angels and men, her owne Sonne (that is both God and man) onely excepted. But I dare not mocke her and blaspheme against God, calling her not onely
Diua but
Dea, and praying her to command and controule her Sonne, who is her God; and her Saviour: Nor yet not I thinke, that shee hath no other thing to doe in heauen, then to heare euery idle mans suite, and busie her selfe in their errands; whiles requesting, whiles commanding her Sonne, whiles comming downe to kisse and make loue with Priestes, and whiles disputing and brawling with Deuils. In heauen shee is in eternall glory and ioy, neuer to bee interrupted with any worldly businesse; and there I leaue her with her blessed Sonne our Saviour and hers in eternall felicitie.
All taken from "The True Law of Free Monarchies"
View on kingship:
"The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth; for kings are not only God's lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called gods"