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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Selden, John, 1584-1654.
Publication: London :: Printed for Jacob Tonson ... and Awnsham and John Churchill ...,; 1696.
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Subject terms: Church and state -- Great Britain.
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Fryers.

1. THE Fryers say they possess no∣thing, whose then are the Lands they hold? not their Superiour's, he hath vow'd Poverty as well as they, whose then? To answer this, 'twas decreed they should say they were the Popes. And why must the Fryers be more perfect than the Pope himself?

2. If there had been no Fryers, Chri∣stendom might have continued quiet, and things remain at a stay.

If there had been no Lecturers (which succeed the Fryers in their way) the Church of England might have stood, and flourisht at this Day.