Over the years, I have heard different pastors and others criticize King James for the divine right of kings to rule. What these pastors and others’ do not understand is that the Roman Catholic Church wants to rule over all the kingdoms of the world. The Roman Catholic Church would use Jesuits and Catholic priests to stir up the people against a king that was disobedient to Rome. The priests would preach against the king and the Jesuits would work behind the scenes against the king. By doing this, the priests and Jesuits would turn the Catholic population of a nation against the king and this would result in a potential civil war. Other ways of dealing with wayward kings was with the assassin’s sword or poison. In other cases “fifth columns” allowed the pope’s armies to enter a country unknown to the king. This is the problem that King James had since he was a Protestant king. The Roman Catholic Church wanted King James dead and replaced with a Catholic king or queen that would submit themselves to Rome. The Gun Powder Plot of 1605 was a Catholic plot to kill King James. King James was considered a heretic king and worthy of assassination.
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