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WILLIAM SHERLOCK (c. 1641-1707)

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 850 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM See also:SHERLOCK (c. 1641-1707)  , See also:English divine, was See also:born at See also:Southwark about 1641, and was educated at See also:Eton and at Peterhouse See also:College, See also:Cambridge .. In 1669 he became See also:rector of St See also:George's, Botolph See also:Lane, See also:London, and in 1681 he was appointed a See also:prebendary of St See also:Paul's . In 1674 he showed his controversial See also:bent by an attack on the puritan See also:John See also:Owen, in The Knowledge of Jesus See also:Christ and See also:Union with Him . In 1684 he published The See also:Case of Resistance of the Supreme See also:Powers stated and resolved according to the See also:Doctrine of the See also:Holy Scriptures, an ably written See also:treatise, in which he See also:drew the distinction between active and passive obedience which was at that See also:time generally accepted by the high See also:church See also:clergy; in the same See also:year he was made See also:master of the See also:Temple . In 1686 he was reproved for his See also:anti-papal See also:preaching, and his See also:pension stopped . After the Revolution he was suspended for refusing the oaths to See also:William and See also:Mary, but before his final deprivation he yielded, justifying his See also:change of attitude in The Case of the See also:Allegiance due to See also:Sovereign Powers stated and resolved according to Scripture and See also:Reason and the Principles of the Church of See also:England (1691) . During the See also:period of his suspension he wrote a See also:Practical Discourse concerning See also:Death, which became very popular . In 1690 and 1693 ne published volumes on the doctrine of the Trinity which helped rather than injured the Socinian cause, and involved him in a warm controversy with See also:Robert See also:South and others . He became See also:dean of St Paul's in 1691, and died at See also:Hampstead in See also:June 1707 . His sermons were collected in 2 vols . 8vo (4th ed., 1755) .

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