# Anti-papal tracts by James VI & I? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 27, 2015, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-papal-tracts-by-james-vi-i/713743 "2015-02-27T02:55:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-papal-tracts-by-james-vi-i/713743/1 "2015-02-27T02:55:52Z")
From the [Epistle Dedicatory](http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Preface#The_Epistle_Dedicatory) to the KJV of the Bible: > [@](#): > > Then not to suffer this to fall to the ground, but rather to take it up, and to continue it in that state, wherein the famous Predecessor of Your Highness did leave it; nay, to go forward with the confidence and resolution of a Man in maintaining the truth of Christ, and propagating it far and near, is that which hath so bound and firmly knit the hearts of all Your Majesty’s loyal and religious people unto You, that Your very name is precious among them: their eye doth behold You with comfort, and they bless You in their hearts, as that sanctified Person, who, under God, is the immediate Author of their true happiness. And this their contentment doth not diminish or decay, but every day increaseth and taketh strength, when they observe, that the zeal of Your Majesty toward the house of God doth not slack or go backward, but is more and more kindled, manifesting itself abroad in the farthest parts of Christendom, **by writing in defence of the Truth, (which hath given such a blow unto that man of sin, as will not be healed,)** and every day at home, by religious and learned discourse, by frequenting the house of God, by hearing the Word preached, by cherishing the Teachers thereof, by caring for the Church, as a most tender and loving nursing Father. That man of sin is almost certainly the Pope, but what writing is referred to? The [Wiki page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I) on James mentions three books he wrote (one on witch-hunting, one on the divine right of kings, one on the rules by which a good king could rule), but I can find nothing about religious writings. ---
**Author:** ![APB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e8cbc/32.png) [@APB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/APB)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 10:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-papal-tracts-by-james-vi-i/713743/2 "2015-02-27T10:36:28Z")
_Triplici nodo, triplex cuneus, or, An Apologie for the Oath of Allegiance_, both in its original 1608 edition, which was published anonymously, and in its 1609 edition, which was published under his own name and which was expanded to include his _Premonition to All Most Mightie Monarches, Kings, Free Princes and States in Christendom_. Both versions were his contributions to the major controversy about papal claims sparked off by [the oath he had introduced in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_Allegiance_of_James_I_of_England). ---
**Author:** ![Claverhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/13edae/32.png) [@Claverhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claverhouse)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-papal-tracts-by-james-vi-i/713743/3 "2015-02-27T14:22:53Z")
He had a run-in with Bellarmine — who was a sad little wretch, now made saint by the RC Church, but whose lasting legacy was gracing a set of **[jugs](http://www.cedarspark.info/history/bellarmine-jugs.html)**. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2015, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anti-papal-tracts-by-james-vi-i/713743/4 "2015-02-27T21:57:24Z")
Belarmine is better known for his role in the Gallileo case than the jugs.