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ROBERT SANDERSON (1587-1663)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 139 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ROBERT See also:SANDERSON (1587-1663)  , See also:English divine, was See also:born probably at See also:Sheffield, See also:Yorkshire, in See also:September 1587 . He was educated at See also:Rotherham See also:grammar school and at See also:Lincoln See also:College, See also:Oxford, took orders in 1611, and was promoted successively to several benefices . On the recommendation of See also:Laud he was I appointed one of the royal chaplains in 1631, and was a favourite preacher with the See also:king, who made him regius See also:professor of divinity at Oxford in 1642 . The See also:Civil See also:War kept him from entering the See also:office till 1646; and in 1648 he was ejected by the See also:Parliamentary visitors . He recovered his position at the Restoration, was See also:moderator at the See also:Savoy See also:Conference, 1661, and was promoted to the bishopric of Lincoln . He died two years later on the 29th of See also:January 1663 . His most celebrated See also:work is his Cases of See also:Conscience, deliberate judgments upon points of morality submitted to him . They are distinguished by moral integrity, See also:good sense and learning . His practice as a college lecturer in See also:logic is better evidenced by these " cases " than by his Compendium of Logic, first published in 1618 . A See also:complete edition of See also:Sanderson's See also:works (6 vols.) was edited by See also:William Jacobson in 18J4 . It includes the See also:Life by Izaak See also:Walton, revised and enlarged .

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