sentences:  In 1597–8, James wrote two works, "The Trew Law of Free Monarchies" and "Basilikon Doron" (Royal Gift), in which he established an ideological base for monarchy.In the "Trew Law", he sets out the divine right of kings, explaining that for Biblical reasons kings are higher beings than other men, though "the highest bench is the sliddriest to sit upon".The document proposes an absolutist theory of monarchy, by which a king may impose new laws by royal prerogative but must also pay heed to tradition and to God, who would "stirre up such scourges as pleaseth him, for punishment of wicked kings".