William Sherlock

Not to be confused with William Sherlock (cricketer).

William Sherlock (c. 1641 – June 1707) was an English church leader.

Life

He was born at Southwark, and was educated at St Saviour's Grammar School and Eton, and then at Peterhouse, Cambridge.^[1] In 1669 he became rector of St George's, Botolph Lane, London, and in 1681 he was appointed a prebendary of St Paul's. In 1683 he was made master of the Temple.

In 1686, he was reproved for his anti-papal preaching and his controversy with the king's chaplain, Lewis Sabran, and his pension was stopped. After the "Glorious Revolution" he was suspended for refusing the oaths to William and Mary, but before losing his position he yielded, justifying his change of attitude.^[2]

He became dean of St Paul's in 1691, and died at Hampstead in June 1707.

Works

In 1674 he showed his controversial tendencies by an attack on the puritan John Owen, in The Knowledge of Jesus Christ and Union with Him. In 1684 he published The Case of Resistance of the Supreme Powers stated and resolved according to the Doctrine of the Holy Scriptures, a treatise in which he drew the distinction between active and passive obedience (which was at that time generally accepted by the high church clergy).

During the period of his suspension, he wrote a Practical Discourse concerning Death, which became very popular.

In 1690 and 1693 he published works on the doctrine of the Trinity which helped rather than injured the Socinian cause, and involved him in a controversy with Robert South and others.

His sermons, collected in 2 volumes, went through several editions.

Notes

↑ "Sherlock, William (SHRK657W)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
↑ In The Case of the Allegiance due to Sovereign Powers stated and resolved according to Scripture and Reason and the Principles of the Church of England (1691).

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Sherlock, William". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links

Works by or about William Sherlock in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

St Paul's Cathedral

Deans

High Medieval	Wulman Ranulf Flambard (disputed) William de Mareni Ralph de Langford Hugh de Mareni Ralph de Diceto Alard de Burnham Gervase de Howbridge Robert de Watford Martin de Pattishall Geoffrey de Lucy William of Sainte-Mère-Église Henry de Cornhill Walter de Saleron Robert de Barton Peter de Newport Richard Talbot John de Ebulo Geoffrey de Fering John Chishull Hervey de Boreham Thomas Ingoldsthorpe Roger de La Legh William de Montfort Ralph Baldock

Late Medieval	Arnald Frangerius de Cantilupo John Sandale Richard Newport Roger Northburgh Vitalis de Testa John de Everdon Gilbert de Bruera Richard de Kilvington Walter de Alderbury Thomas Trilleck John de Appleby Thomas de Eure Thomas Stowe Thomas More Reginald Kentwood Thomas Lisieux Lawrence Booth William Say Roger Radclyffe Thomas Wynterbourne William Worsley

Early modern	Robert Sherborne John Colet Richard Pace Richard Sampson John Incent William May John Feckenham Henry Cole William May (again) Alexander Nowell John Overall Valentine Cary John Donne Thomas Winniffe Richard Steward Matthew Nicholas John Barwick William Sancroft Edward Stillingfleet John Tillotson William Sherlock Henry Godolphin Francis Hare Joseph Butler Thomas Secker John Hume Frederick Cornwallis Thomas Newton Thomas Thurlow

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Mark Oakley (Canon Treasurer)
Michael Hampel (Canon Precentor)
Jason Rendell (Minor Canon & Sacrist)
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