Sublime

20The law entered in* so that transgression might increase but, where sin increased, grace overflowed all the more,+ 21so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through justification for eternal life through Jesus Christ our LORD.+

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, how he warred and how he reigned, are written in the Book of the Annals of the Kings of Israel.

But if James’s divine right to rule was questioned by dissenters who fled his authority, it was being questioned, too, on the floor of Parliament.