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THE WORKS OF THOMAS SHERLOCK
IN 4 VOLUMES
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Contents: Volume 1 with 500 pages
Discoures on serveral portions of Scripture
Volume 2 with 510 pages Discourses on serveral portions of Scripture
Volume 3 with 490 pages Discoures on serveral portions of Scripture
Volume 4 with 500 pages 6 Discourses
About the Author:
THOMAS SHERLOCK (1678-1761), English divine, the son of William Sherlock,
was born at London in 1678. He was educated at Eton and at St Catharine's
Hall, Cambridge, and in 1704 succeeded his father as master of the Temple,
where he was very popular. In 1714 he became master of his old college at
Cambridge and vice-chancellor of the university, whose privileges he
defended against Richard Bentley. In 1715 he was appointed dean of
Chichester. He took a prominent part in the Bangorian controversy against
Benjamin Hoadly, whom he succeeded as bishop of Bangor in 1728; he was
afterwards translated to Salisbury in 1734, and to London in 1748.
Sherlock was a capable administrator, and cultivated friendly relations
with dissenters. In parliament he was of good service to his old
schoolfellow Robert Walpole. He published against Anthony Collins's
deistic Grounds of the Christian Religion a volume of sermons entitled The
Use and Interest of Prophecy in the Several Ages of the World (1725)
He died in July 1761
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