BEING THE

DISCOURSES

O F

John Selden, Efq;

OR HIS

SENSE of various MATTERS of Weight
and high Confequence

Relating especially to

Religion and State.

Diftingue Tempora.
The Third Edition.

LONDON:

Printed for Jacob Tonfon, at Shakespear's-Head, over-
against Catherine-Street in the Strand; and Awnfham
and John Churchill, at the Black Swan in Pater-
Nofter-Row MDCCXVI.

Mr. Justice HALES,

One of the JUDGES of the

Common-Pleas;

And to the much Honoured

Edward Heywood, John Vaughan, and Rowland Fewks, Efqrs;

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 wholly his, and most of the Words. I had the opportunity to hear his Discourfes twenty Years togecher, and left all thofe Excellent things that ufually fell from him might be loft,

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loft, fome of them from time to time I faithfully committed to Writing, which here digested into this Method, I humbly prefent to your Hands; you will quickly perceive them to be his by the familiar Illustrations wherewith they are fet off, and in which way you know he was fo happy, that, with a marvelous delight to thofe that heard him, he would prefently convey the highest Points of Religion, and the most important Affairs of State, to an ordinary apprehenfion.

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 fpoken; this will give them the more Life, and the fmarter Relish. 'Tis poffible the Entertainment you find in them, may ren der you the more inclinable to pardon the Prefumption of,

Your most Obliged and
moft Humble Servant

RI. MILWARD;