BEING THE DISCOURSES OF JOHN SELDEN, Esq. OR HIS SENSE OF VARIOUS MATTERS OF WEIGHT AND HIGH CONSEQUENCE. RELATING ESPECIALLY TO RELIGION AND STATE. DISTINGUE TEMPORA. A NEW EDITION. TO WHICH IS ADDED, THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JOSEPH WHITE, HOLBORN. M,DCCLXXXVI EN 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 perfon, 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 fenfe and notion here is wholly his, and most of the words. I had the opportunity to hear his difcourfes twenty years together, and left all thofe excellent things that ufually fell from him might be loft, fome of them from time to time. I faith A 2 Scott 28 Qpril 1936 (Billing) |