Table-talk, being discourses of John Seldon, Esq or his sense of various matters of weight and high consequence, relating especially to religion and state.

Christians.

1. IN the High-Church of Jerusalem, the Christians were but another Sect of Jews, that did believe the Messias was come. To be called, was nothing else, but to become a Christian, to have the Name of a Christian, it being their own Language: For among the Jews, when they made a Doctor of Law, 'twas said he was called.

2. The Turks tell their People of a Heaven where there is sensible Pleasure, but of a Hell where they shall suffer they don't know what. The Christians quite invert this Order, they tell us of a Hell where we shall feel sensible Pain, but of a

Heaven where we shall enjoy we can't tell what.

3. Why did the Heathens object to the Christians, that they worship an Asses Head? You must know, that to a Hea∣then, a Jew and a Christian were all one, that they regarded him not, so he was not one of them. Now that of the Asses Head might proceed from such a Mistake as this; by the Jews Law, all the Firstlings of Cattle were to be offered to God, except a young Ass, which was to be redeemed, a Heathen being present, and seeing young Calves and young Lambs kill'd at their Sacrifices, only young Asses redeem'd, might very well think they had that silly Beast in some high Estimation, and thence might imagine they worshipped it as a God.