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JOHN SELDEN,

Born 15 84.Died 16 54.

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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.

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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 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 difcour-
fes twenty years together, and left
all thofe excellent things that ufu-
ally fell from him might be loft,
fome of them from time to time
A. 2
I faith-

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
Moft humble fervant,

R. MILWARD.