59835 BEING THE DISCOURSES O F 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,D CCLXXXVI English maress 1-3-40 39786 1-11-40 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 I faithfully committed to writing, which here digefted into this me thod, I humbly prefent to your hands you will quickly perceive them to be his by the familiar ilJuftrations 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 flate, to an ordinary apprehenfion. In reading be pleased to diftinguifh 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 relifh. It is poffible the entertainment you find in them, may render you the more inclinable to pardon the pre fumption of, Your moft obliged and R. MILWARD. |