ROBERT

See also:

• ROBERT SANDERSON (1587-1663)

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