James

These men, preserving the true tradition of the blessed teaching directly from Peter and James, from John and Paul, the holy apostles — son receiving from father (though few are like their fathers) — came, by God's will, down even to us, to deposit those ancestral and apostolic seeds.

For we dare to say (for here is the gnostic faith) that the truly gnostic man is knowing of all things and embracing of all things, using a sure apprehension even in the things insoluble to us — such as were James, Peter, John, Paul, and the rest of the apostles.

In the time of James the second, all the judges of England (except one) decided “that the laws of England were the king’s laws.

The maxim of James the first, “no bishop no king,” was a political truth;

Now even if Peter and John and James, who were thought to be pillars, were reprehended, the cause is manifest.

Well, then, that Peter and James and John gave their right hands to Paul, and covenanted about the distribution of office, that Paul should go to the nations and they to the circumcision, only that they should remember the poor — and this according to the law of the Creator, who cherishes the poor and needy, as was proved in the review of your gospel.

A devotee of the common law, he detested the reforming ideas of Bacon fully as much as the despotic arbitrariness of James.

nor was it till the middle ages had finally closed, and James the First had ascended the throne of England, that we obtained a true statute of limitation of a very imperfect kind.

It has been very commonly believed that, before the agrarian measures of James the First, Ireland was one of the countries in which private property in land was invested with least sacredness, and in which forms of ownership generally considered as barbarous most extensively prevailed.

In the reign of James the First, the statute of monopolies was passed.

The right of exclusively making any mechanical invention was taken away from the author or inventor by the act against monopolies of the 21st of James the First.

“As to mechanical inventions, he did not know that, previous to the act of 21st James the First, [the statute against monopolies,] an action would not lie against the person who pirated an invention.

nor did Peter and John and James, without loss of reason and almost out of their wits — who, if they had seen not the Son's glory to be borne, but the Father, would, I believe, have died on the spot.

That Peter is struck, that Stephen is crushed, that James is sacrificed, that Paul is torn — these things are written in their own blood.

To whom rather would he have declared the figure of his own voice than to those to whom he revealed the effigy of his glory — to Peter, John, James, and afterward to Paul, whom he made a partaker of paradise too before his martyrdom?