James VI and I True Law of Free Monarchies

The theme of the reading is talking about how the monarchy was for James VI and I. "The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth; for kings are not only God's lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called gods." This stood out to me because it really talks about how the monarchy thought that they had the right to everything. It was God's gift to them and the world need to listen to them because they thought that they were God's gift to the world. 


This got me to think about how it is really only should what the Monarchy thought about themselves and not how the people in the kingdom were treated by the monarch. If you look at it from the monarchy's side of things then you see what they thought of themselves. They know how to shine a light on what they do good and how they know how to care for the kingdom. If you really look at how the monarchy was then you see that not all were as good to their kingdoms as they could have been or in all realty should have been.


This reading connects to today with how people in america think that they are better because some of them think that they are God's gift to the world. they also think that because they are God's gift that they have to save the world. But that is not true, just with how the monarchy thought that they were God's gift giving them the right to do what they think is best whether it really is or not. Sometimes we just need to step back and let God use us they way that he wants to not the way we think he wants to use us.


This reading relates to the text with how Europeans thought that everything was theirs because they thought it was their God given right to the rest of the world. Just like how the monarch thought that they were God's gift to the kingdom. Europeans thought that they were God's gift to the world and how they were there to help change the world for what they thought was better. God is the only one to really say what is better or not, no human can truly say what is best for other humans.