【正文】 d German for a period of over 50 years.Basilicon Doron is a short treatise（論文）, only 153 pages consists of three short volumes, the first of which is “A King’s Christian Duetie towards God.”James D’israeli said, “James had formed the most elevated conception of the virtues and duties of a monarch.”In Basilicon Doron, King James’ understanding of Christian discipleship, style and prose are at their skillfully intertwines sacred scripture with godly and Christian King offers his son this important advice on knowing God: Diligently read his word, amp。 earnestly...pray for the right understanding the scriptures saith Christ for they will bear testimony of whole Scriptures saith Paul are profitable to teach, to improve, to correct, and to instruct in righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect unto all good works.“The whole Scripture contayneth but two things: a mand and a in both...The worship of God is wholly grounded upon the Scripture, quickened by faith.”Basilicon Doronby King JamesTHE KING UNITES SCOTLAND AND ENGLAND.King James’ great aspiration to be the first King of both Scotland and England was realized in 1603 upon the death of Queen he ascended to the English throne that year he had already been king of Scotland for 36 was now known as King James VI of Scotland amp。 I of England. The king played a masterly political game and kept his kingdom out of the first time a Scottish monarch wielded effective authority over the more farflung areas of the realm（領(lǐng)域）.He supported literature both through his own writing and his patronage（贊助）.There was peace during his reign—both with his subjects and foreign powers.THE KING HAD MANY ENEMIES.As a Scotsman ruling over the English, the King endured much racism and slander—especially from the once powerful English Lords and Ladies who he replaced with his Scottish , many of today’s historians look to the writings of hostile sources such as Sir Anthony Weldon and Francis Osborne as accurate descriptions of this great king.One of the king’s detractors（誹謗者）, Sir Anthony Weldon, was knighted by King James but was subsequently dismissed after King James found racist writings by Weldon about the King’s native historians today quote Weldon as if he were a reliable historical source. Examples of Weldon’s racism are found in his treatise entitled, “A Perfect Description of the People and Country of Scotland” where he says that the Scots are a “stinking people” who hold “fornication...but a pastime”.He also said, “...their flesh naturally abhors breath monly stinks of pottage...to be chained in marriage with one of them, were to be tied to a dead carcass, and cast into a stinking ditch...I do wonder that...King James should be born in so stinking a town as Edinburgh in lousy Scotland.”Despite this obvious bias, historians continue to consult the writings of Anthony Weldon who intimated that King James had inordinate affections towards other men—but he did not do this until 25 years after King James was dead and could not defend ’s sodomite/ homosexual munity is touting the King as one of their own, which he was misinformed sources, virtually without exception, fail to mention that King James and his Queen had nine children can read about the rumors in this article or check out an excellently researched book on the subject by Stephen Coston, , King James: Unjustly Accused?Almost prophetically, the king wrote of his enemies: “They quarrel me (not for any evil or vice in me) but because I was a king, which they thought the highest evil, and because they were ashamed to profess this quarrel they were busy to look narrowly in all my actions, and I warrant you a moat in my eye, yes a false report was matter enough for them to work upon.”—James I, Basilicon DoronThe religion was also an enemy of king (as King James called them) attempted to assassinate him a number of notably, in 1605 Roman Catholic Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up Parliament when the king was to have been conspiracy was discovered and all coconspirators were failed attempt is celebrated on November 5 in England each year and is known as Guy Fawkes Night.King James was an evangelist of the true gospel, which automatically made him an enemy of James strongly delineated the errors of Roman superstition and spurned them yet he treated Romanist subjects ambassador Nicolo Molin said this of King James: “He is a Protestant...the King tries to extend his Protestant religion to the whole island. The King is a bitter enemy of our frequently speaks of it in terms of is all the harsher because of this last conspiracy against his life...He understood that the Jesuits had a hand in it.”SUCCESS IN KINGSHIP.Despite his detractors, King James the Ⅵ of Scotland and Ⅰ of England was a highly successful King.As a lover of the theatre, King James became patron to the troop of one of his most famous subjects—William Shakespeare the ’s troop came to be known as the King’s and the King held a special relationship as they both loved literature. Shakespeare even wrote his famous play, “Macbeth”specifically for King James.Another little recognized fact is that King James the Ⅵ and Ⅰ is the founding monarch of the United his reign, we have the first successful colonies planted on the American mainland—Virginia, Massachusetts, and Nova Scotia (Latin for New Scotland) in SE King himself ordered, wrote and authorized the Evangelistic Grant Charter to settle the Colony of Virginia: “To make habitation...and to deduce a colony of sundry of our people into that part of America, monly called Virginia...in propagating of Christian religion to such people as yet live in darkness...to bring a settled and quiet government.”14用心 愛心 專心