Table-Talk: BEING THE DISCOURSES Q F John Selden Efq; OR HIS SENCE of Various MATTERS OF. WEIGHT and High CONSEQUENCE Relating especially to Religion and State. Diftingue Tempora. LONDON, To the Honourable Mr. Justice Hales, One of the JUDGES OF THE Common-Pleas; Aud to the much Honoured EDWARD HEYWOOD, JOHN VAUGHAN and ROWLAND JEW KS Esquires. Most worthy Gentlemen, W Ere you not Executors to that Perfon, who (while he liv'd) was the Glory of the Nation; yet I am Confident any thing of his would find Acceptance with you, and truly the Senfe and Notion here is wholy bis,and most of the words. I had the opportunity to hear his Difcourfe twenty Years together, and leeft all thofe Excellent things that ufually fell from him might be loft, fome of them from time to time I faithfully committed to Writing, which here digefted into this Method, I humbly present to your Hands 3 quickly perceive them to be his by the familiar Illustrations wherewith they are fet off, and in which way you know he was so happy, that (with a marvelous delight to those that heard him) he would prefently convey the highest Points of Religion, and the most important Affairs of State to an ordinary apprehenfion. will In reading be pleas'd to distinguish Times, and in your Fancy carry along with you, the When and the Why, many of these things were Spoken; this will give them the more Life, and the fmarter Relish. "1is poffible the Entertainment you find in them, may render you the more inclinable to pardon the Presumption of |