John Selden

Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, read more

Commemoration of Denys, Bishop of Paris, & his Companions, Martyrs, 258 Commemoration of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln, Philosopher, Scientist, 1253 Prayer should be short, without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this, or that; He knows best what is good for us. If your boy should ask you [for] a suit of clothes, and give you reasons, would you endure it? You know his needs better than he: let him ask a suit of clothes.

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess

'Tis not the eating, nor 'tis not the drinking that is to be blamed, but the excess

All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only read more

All things are God's already; we can give him no right, by consecrating any, that he had not before, only we set it apart to his service -- just as a gardener brings his master a basket of apricots, and presents them; his lord thanks him, and perhaps gives him something for his pains, and yet the apricots were as much his lord's before as now.

'Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure,
we call a Foot, a Chancellor's read more

'Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure,
we call a Foot, a Chancellor's Foot; what an uncertain Measure
would this be! one Chancellor has a long Foot, another a short
Foot, a Third an indifferent foot. 'Tis the same thing in the
Chancellor's Conscience.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.

Ignorance of the law excuses no man.