James VI and I, King (1566–1625)

Sommerville, Johann P.

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“…17 James also told Henry not to be overly lenient. 18 He should "reason not much with them [puritans]" since argument would not work. 19 Where puritans deemed royal policy insufficient or wrong, James warned, they would turn to sedition and even cease praying for the magistrate, in effect a popular form of excommunication.…”

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“…While James claimed that he did not automatically condemn those who preferred presbyterian forms to the "many Ceremonies in the Church of England," he did roundly condemn "brain-sicke and headie Preachers" for the political offences of contempt of authority and interference with the royal prerogative. 20 Clemency, he insisted, should be offered only after royal authority had been established-a foreshadowing of his biting conformity campaign of 1603-1606 and then his comparative relaxation after 1610. While modified by events, the basis of James's preferred strategy for dealing with religious challenges was thus available in Basilicon doron.…”

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“…21 Monarchy in both Scotland and England, he argued, depended not upon contract, but upon the rights of conquest. 22 While societies could express what they wanted in a ruler-the (Scottish) coronation oath was "the clearest, civill, and fundamental Law, whereby the Kings office is properly defined"-kings could not be held to earthly account for any breaches. A discontented people could not make laws against their monarch.…”

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“…67 Jacob also sought to flatter: another conference would "much redound to the Honor of His Maiesties person, and Government" 68 and would also mean reformists were accepting James's own ideas that they should "presse by patience, and well grounded reasons." 69 He added the enticement that a true settlement was "like to put an end to all these controversies" and would "see such a blessed unitie and uniformitie in all the Churches within your Dominions, as your owne heart desireth." 70 But again there was scarcely veiled resistance.…”

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Henry Jacob, James I, and Religious Reform, 1603–1609: From Hampton Court to Reason-of-State

Morgan¹

2017

Church Hist

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At the beginning of James I's reign, a petition campaign, the Hampton Court conference, numerous tracts, and considerable effort in Parliament all failed to overcome the king's adamant defense of the forms and practices of his episcopal church. In a milieu of deprivations and perception of declension, Henry Jacob, one of the organizers of the petitioning, denounced the illegitimacy and dangers of prelatical church government in several tracts between 1604 and 1609, advocated congregationalism, and outlined the basis for a second conference to bring continuing religious disputes to a close. In 1609, having achieved no success, Jacob turned away from scriptural arguments for reform and instead boldly adopted the novel reason-of-state political language to request “toleration” for politically loyal nonconforming Protestants. Jacob relied on “axioms of pollicie” and recent examples to demonstrate that necessity sometimes determined that toleration, while unpalatable, was the most prudent political course (as the new language had it). James's handwritten marginalia on this tract reveal his continuing antipathy toward any reform he believed derogated from his monarchical “interest.” The variety of arguments Jacob employed illustrates both the difficulties facing early Jacobean reformers and the often-unrecognized degree of flexibility and development in their thought and tactics. In asking for toleration as a royal favor, Jacob also illustrates the seventeenth-century nonconformist dilemma of achieving desired ends through doubtful means.

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Section: The New King's Ideasmentioning

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Section: The New King's Ideasmentioning

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