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.
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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.
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James I, King of England, 1566-1625.
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London :: Printed by B.A. and are to be sold at his house near the upper pump in Grub-street,
1650.
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James -- King of England, -- 1566-1625
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A87471.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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33 (Book 33)
Doctor Baily, holding confer∣ence with the King touching the Popes arrogancy, alluding to Christs answer to his Apostles, He that desireth to bear rule, let him be the least among you; and therefore the Pope doth some∣times colourably term himself, Servum Servorum, &c. To
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which the King replies, that by such argument or inference, he could prove the Pope to be humbly minded; to which the Doctor answered, that he did not always so account him∣self, save onely when he had purpose to delude or deceive; otherwise he esteemed himself Dominus Dominantium, &c. His Majesties determination on the point, was, that the Popes cal∣ling himself Servus Servorum, &c. was rather in a more strict and peculiar sence, as that he was Servus Petri, &c. sive Ma∣riae Virginis, &c. and so by con∣sequence, Servum Servorum Dei, &c. towards all other Do∣minum Dominantium, &c. So
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likewise to be a professed Ca∣tholick, is to be a Christian; but to be a Roman Catholick, is it which marreth the matter. It was the reproof of the Dona∣tists, which were accounted Catholicks, but confined their profession into one corner of, Affrica. So also the Romanists, whereas the true Catholick is universal.
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