Seldeniana, or the Table-Talk of John Selden

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: keep to what is settled, and then you may flourish upon your various lections. 14. The Apocrypha is bound with the Bibles of all churches that have been hitherto. Why should we leave it out ? the church of Rome has her Apocrypha, viz. Susanna, and Bell and the Dragon, which she does not esteem equally with the rest of those hooks that we call Apocrypha. BISHOPS BEFORE THE PARLIAMENT. 1. A Bishop as a bishop, had never any ecclesiastical jurisdiction; for as soon as he was electus confirmatus, that is, after the three proclamations in Bow-church, he might exercise jurisdiction before he was consecrated; not till then, he was no bishop, neither could he give orders. Besides, suffragans were bishops, and they never claimed any jurisdiction. 2. Anciently, the noblemen lay within the city for safety and security. The bishops houses were by the water-side, because they were held sacred persons which nobody would hurt. 3. There was some sense for commendamsat first, when there was a living void, and never a clerk to serve it, the bishop was to keep it till they found a fit man, but now it is a trick for the bishop to keep it for himself. 4. For a bishop to preach, it is to do other folks office, as if the steward of the house should execute the porter's or the cook's place; it is his business to see that they and all other about the house perform their duties. 5. That which is thought to have done the bishops hurt, is their going about to bring men to a blind obedience, imposing things upon them, though perhaps small and well enough, without preparing them, and insinuating into their reasons and fancies. Every man loves to know his commander. I wear those gloves, but perhaps if an alderman should command me, I should think much to do it; what has he to do with me ? O...

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