BEING THE

DISCOURSES

OF

شاه

JOHN SELDEN, Es

OR HIS

SENSE OF VARIOUS MATTERS OF WEIGHT

AND HIGH CONSEQUENCE.

RELATING ESPECIALLY TO

RELIGION AND STATE.

DISTINGUE TEMPORA.

A NEW EDIΤΙΟΝ.

TO WHICH IS ADDED,

THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR JOSEPH WHITE,

HOLBORN.

MDCCLXXXVI

EN

TO THE HONOURABLE

Mr. JUSTICE HALES,

ONE OF THE JUDGES

OF THE

COMMON PLEAS:

AND TO THE MUCH HONOURED

Edward Heywood, John Vaughan, and Rowland Jewks, Efqrs.

MOST WORTHY GENTLEMEN,.

WERE you not executors to that person, who, while he lived, was the glory of the nation, yet I am confident any thing of his would find acceptance with you, and truly the sense and notion here is wholly his, and most of the words. I had the opportunity to hear his discourses twenty years together, and left all those excellent things that ufu-. ally fell from him might be loft, fome of them from time to time I faith-

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