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id: A35872
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
title: A Dialogue between Dr. Sherlock, the King of France, the great Turk, and Dr. Oates
date: 1691.0
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  A Dialogue between Dr. Sherlock, the King of France, the great Turk, and Dr. Oates 1691 Approx. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 180:16) A Dialogue between Dr. Sherlock, the King of France, the great Turk, and Dr. Oates Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707. Oates, Titus, 1649-1705.


id: A46648
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1689.0
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title:
  A letter to a friend, containing some quæries about the new commission for making alterations in the liturgy, canons, &c. of the Church of England

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. And if they are afraid of those reverend Persons who had before declared their readiness ( in their Address to K. I. against their publishing his Declaration for Liberty of Conscience ) to come to such a temper with reference to Dissenters , as shall be thought fit by a Parliament and Convocation , it is very suspicious that they intend something very unreasonable , which they feared would not pass a free Convocation , when those reverend and judicious Prelates were present . Q. II.


id: A59823
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1680.0
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title:
  Humble and modest proposals tender'd to the consideration of both houses of Parliament, for uniting the Protestant interest in the nation for the present age, and preventing our divisions for future

summary:
  Church and state -- England. The Advantages which must necessarily attend the making of such a Law , would be very great both to our interest in Church and State ; amongst which I beg leave to name the following .


id: A59887
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1694.0
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title:
  A sermon preach'd at the Temple-Church, December 30, 1694, upon the sad occasion of the death of our gracious Queen by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  But if we may say , that some things are more peculiarly the care of Providence , than others , Life and Death are certainly so ; no man can be Born or Die , without the particular Order and Appointment of God : Our Saviour tells us , not a sparrow falls to the ground without our Father , much less men ; and assures his Disciples , that all the hairs of their head are numbred ; and their Lives are more sacred than their Hairs . Our good Queen did not think so , who knew what an Earthly Crown meant , but was willing to part with it for Heaven ; who saw Death approaching without fear , and prepared to receive its Stroke with that calmness and sedateness of Mind , as nothing could give but an innocent Conscience , and much greater Hopes But as for our selves , though we must acknowledge that we have received a very great Loss , in the Death of an excellent Queen , yet we have no reason to quarrel at Providence , while God preserves our King to go in and out before us .


id: A59884
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1693.0
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title:
  A sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Richard Meggot D.D. and late Dean of Winchester, Decemb. 10th, 1692 at Twickenham by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  Church of England -- Sermons. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors.


id: A59874
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1685.0
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title:
  A sermon preached at St. Margarets Westminster, May 29, 1685, before the Honourable House of Commons by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  It was not the Throngs and Crowds of People , which met their returning Prince , nor those loud and joyful Acclamations wherewith they welcomed him to his Country and Throne ; it was not the external Pomp and Splendour of the Show , though as magnificent as Art and Nature could make it ; nay , it was not meerly the transporting sight of a Prince , who was now endeared by long Absence , and by the Oppressions and Injuries of Usurpers , who after ten thousand Indignities returned with all the Expressions of a Princely Goodness and Indemnity : I say , though these were all very affecting Circumstances , and added much to raise and heighten a present Passion , yet they were not the true Glory of this day , which consisted in restoring the English Monarchy in the Royal Line : for this we bless God , and for the continuance of this we pray this day ; and if we believe King Solomon , there is great reason for both ; for it is as great a Blessing as any Nation can enjoy : Blessed art thou , O Land , when thy King is the Son of Nobles . As for that Dispute , Whether Kingly Government be by Divine Right , if by Divine Right we mean a positive Law and Institution of God , that all Nations shall be governed by Kings , I find no such thing in Scripture , which is the onely Revelation of the Divine Will ; but if by Divine Right , we mean onely such an intimation of the Will of God , as we can learn from the appearances of Nature and Providence , I dare boldly affirm , that Kingly government is by Divine Right ; that is , is most agreeable to all those notices we have of the Will of God from the original frame and constitution of Nature , and from the dispensations of Providence ; which though it be not sufficient to condemn all other Governments as unlawful , yet it advances Monarchy above all other Forms of Government , when it appears , that God himself has at least given the preference to it .


id: A59892
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1699.0
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title:
  A sermon preach'd at St. Paul's Cathedral, November 22, 1699 being the anniversary meeting of the Lovers of Musick / by W. Sherlock ...

summary:
  I would not have you mistake me ; I do not appear in this place at this time to decry or disparage the use of Musick in the Worship of God , which would neither become this Presence , nor my own Character ; but to persuade and direct you to turn the Delights and Charms of Musick , into the Raptures of Devotion , which would the most effectually silence all the Enemies of Church-Musick , and Cathedral-Worship , while as a Divine Poet of our own Sings , This would visibly turn Delight into a Sacrifice . Now since Musick , whatever it be , and how well soever performed , is of no Use or Value in Religion , but as it serves the true Ends of Devotion ; we must Enquire , What that Harmony and Melody is , which is so acceptable to God ; How fit External and Sensible Melody is to promote this ; And how it may and ought to be improved to that purpose .


id: A59787
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1687.0
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title:
  An answer to a late Dialogue between a new Catholick convert and a Protestant to prove the mystery of the Trinity to be as absurd a doctrine as transubstantiation : by way of short notes on the said dialogue.

summary:
  On the other side , Transubstantiation lay unquestion'd and quiet a long time ; and when it came to debate , there was no such opposition as that of Arius , to call in question the Authority of its Tradition ; the Church receiv'd it unanimously , and in that sense continu'd , till rash Reason attempted to fathom the unlimited Miracles and Mysteries of God. But , Sir , to be short , What relation has this to the present Parallel of the Trinity and Transubstantiation ?


id: A59805
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1692.0
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title:
  The charity of lending without vsury, and the true notion of vsury briefly stated in a sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, at St. Bridget's Church, on Tuesday in Easter-week, 1692 / by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  1. To lend freely , without Usury ; for our Saviour commands this , as an Act of Charity , Do good , and lend : And tho to lend , even upon Usury , may in many cases prove a great kindness to the Borrower , yet Charity is not the motive of the Lender , it is not Charity , but Traffick and Merchandize of Money : And tho the Jews were expresly forbid to lend their Brethren upon Usury , yet our Saviour intimates there was something like this , and equivalent to it , which spoiled the Charity of lending , even without Usury ; that they would not lend to the poor ; who though they should repay them what they borrowed , yet were never likely to be in a condition to lend to them again ; but they would lend to the Rich , from whom they expected the like returns of kindness ; as you may see in the Verses before my Text ; 33 , 34. And if ye lend to them , of whom ye hope to receive , ( not only your own , but the like kindness of lending to you when your occasions require it ) , what thank have ye ? for sinners also lend to sinners , to receive as much again ; 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , equal returns of kindness ; which if it be not Usury of Money , is Usury of Kindnesses , but is not Charity ; like inviting our Rich Friends and Neighbours to a Feast , who can invite us again ; which tho it be no fault , is no Charity ; for that consists in entertaining the poor , who can make us no return , 14.


id: A59877
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1689.0
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title:
  A sermon preached before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor and aldermen of the city of London, at Gvild-hall-Chappel, on Sunday, Nov. 4, 1688 by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  As to Explain this more particularly , but very briefly : There is no good Protestant but will confess , That we are Justified only by the Merits of CHRIST's Death and Sacrifice , as the only Expiation and Atonement for our sins : that no works of Righteousness which we can do , can make satisfaction to God for our sins , nor merit Eternal Life , which is the gift of God : that Christ is our only Saviour , and that he is the Saviour only of his Body or Church : that we are incorporated into the Body of Christ , and put into a state of Justification by Faith and the Christian Sacraments : that no impenitent unreformed sinner , though he do profess to believe in Christ , and be baptized , shall be saved by Him ; and therefore though Repentance and a holy life do not merit the pardon of sin , nor eternal Rewards , yet they are necessarily required in all those , who shall be forgiven and saved by Christ. This I say , all good Protestants agree in , and all this is plainly taught in Scripture ; and whoever believes this , and practises accordingly , shall certainly be saved : and what need is there then of reducing all this into artificial Schemes , wherein Mens Fancies and Conceits differ ? What necessity is there of disputing what the Office of Faith , or what the Efficacy of Works is in our Justification , when we all agree , that we are saved only by the Mercy of God , and the Merits of Christ through Faith in his Bloud , and the Exercise of Repentance and a holy Life : to understand the reason and order of things , conduces much to the beauty and perfection of Christian Knowledge ; but Men may be saved , and the Peace of the Church better secured , without such particular Determinations .


id: A71020
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1692.0
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title:
  A sermon preach'd before the Queen at White-hall, February the XIIth, 1691/2 by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  Nay , hence we learn , that God many times exercises those with the greatest and most difficult Tryals and Temptations , who are most dear to him . If good Men Conquer , Temptations do but exercise , encrease , and confirm their Graces , and make them great and illustrious examples to the World , glorify the Divine Power in the Victories and Triumphs of his Servants , over the World , the Flesh , and the Devil ; give them a secure hope in God , and a transporting sense of his Love , and prepare great rewards for them in the next Life .


id: A59880
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1692.0
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title:
  A sermon preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons, at St. Margaret's Westminster, January the xxxth, 1691/2 by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  THIS Psalm , as the Title tells us , and as Learned Men generally agree , is a Prayer of Moses ; penned by him , as is supposed , after God had pronounced that final Sentence against the Israelites , That none of that great Army , which came out of Egypt , from twenty years old and upwards , should enter into Canaan , but should all die in the Wilderness , excepting Caleb and Joshua . The first is implied , That sin for which God thus punished them :


id: A59891
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1699.0
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title:
  A sermon preach'd on the second of September being the fast for the fire of London, at the cathedral church of St. Paul's, before the right honourable the Lord-Mayor, aldermen, and citizens of London / by W. Sherlock ...

summary:
  This they think hard , that they must part with all their Sins , to remove these Judgments ; nay , this they think can't be the Truth of the Case , because the World is always very wicked , and yet the Judgments of God are not always abroad in the World : And therefore they suppose , that when God does execute Judgments , it is not Sin in general , but some particular Sins , which so highly provoke him ; and could they learn what they are , and reform them , they might see happy Days again : And this sets men at liberty to favour what Sins they please , to reproach and accuse each other , and to charge all the Evils and Calamities they suffer upon one another , without thinking of reforming themselves . God is gracious and merciful , slow to anger , and of great kindness : He delights more to display his Glory in acts of Goodness and Bounty to his Creatures ; but Judgments are his strange work , which makes the signal Execution of them so very rare ; and the way to have them rare , is not to forget them , to learn Righteousness by the things which we have suffer'd ; to fear and tremble before that God who is so terrible in his doings towards the children of men .


id: A59826
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
title: A letter to a member of the convention
date: 1688.0
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summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. Some are for sending to the King , and treating with him to return to his Government , under such legal restraints , as shall give security to the most jealous Persons , for the preservation of their Liberties , Laws , and Religion ; and if he will not consent to this , to make the next Heir Regent : Others are for declaring the Crown forfeited or demised , and proclaiming the Princess of Orange : Others will have the Government dissolved , and begin all de novo , and make the Prince of Orange King , or crown him and the Princess together , and Postpone the Title of the Princess Anne , till after the Prince's Death , if he survive the Princess .


id: A59832
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1697.0
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title:
  The nature and measure of charity a sermon preach'd before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, and the Court of Aldermen, at the parish-church of St. Bridget, on Tuesday in Easter-week, April 6, 1697 / by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  Let no man satisfie himself with some small trifling presents , which bear no proportion to what he has , upon pretence that God has prescribed no proportion of giving ; but let him ask himself , Whether , in his own Conscience , what he gives , bears any proportion to that love and charity to the poor and miserable , which God requires : and let him remember , that though God has not fixt the proportions of giving , he requires great degrees of Charity ; and though Men may give liberally without Charity , yet not to give in some due proportion , is a certain sign of want of Charity , when there wants no ability to give . Now in Moral Actions it is the Principle that gives the Value ; not so much the Gift , as the Mind of the Giver ; and therefore St. Paul tells us , That though we give all our goods to feed the poor , and have not charity , we are nothing . 1 Cor. 13. 3. God can feed the poor without us , if he so pleases ; but as for several other wise ends of Providence , so he has ordered , That the poor shall be always with us for the trial and exercise of our Virtue , but the Virtue is not the Gift , but the Charity . And could we perform all the Acts of Charity without a charitable Mind , the World might be better for it , but not we our selves .


id: A59808
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1697.0
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title:
  The danger of corrupting the faith by philosophy a sermon preach'd before the Right Honble, the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen at Guildhall-Chappel on Sunday, April 25, 1697 / by William Sherlock.

summary:
  Now if God ever does reveal such things to us , if we believe upon God's Authority ( which is the strict Notion of a Divine Faith ) , we must believe without any Natural Evidence , merely because God has revealed it ; and then we must believe such things as are not evident to Sense and Reason ; and then it can be no Objection against Revelation , nor against the belief of any such supernatural Truths , that we have no Natural Notion , nor Natural evidence of them , that they are what we cannot conceive and comprehend . I would gladly know of them , Whether they would not believe such supernatural Truths , as are not evident to Reason , were they sure that God had Revealed them ? I guess they will not be so hardy as to say , That they would not believe God himself , should he Reveal such things as their Reason cannot comprehend ; and if they would believe God in such matters , Why will they not believe a Revelation , which they themselves acknowledge to be Divine , in such matters ?


id: A59895
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1683.0
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title:
  Some seasonable reflections on the discovery of the late plot being a sermon preacht on that occasion / by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  It was impossible to do this , without calling to mind a great many things , which to be sure , those who are any ways concerned , are not now willing to hear of ; and that with such plainness , as is necessary to convince men of the evil nature and tendency of such practices : but God is my witness , that I did not this with the least design to upbraid or reproach any men , or party of men , but with the same honest and charitable intentions , though it may be not with the same skill , that a Chirurgeon uses in searching a wound to the very bottom ; which is very painful indeed , but absolutely necessary to a Cure. This Pious Prince , though he were immediately advanced to the Throne by God himself , could not escape the Conspiracies of his enemies both at home and abroad : for Men of Turbulent and restless Spirits , will be sure to find or make some pretences or occasions of quarrel , under the most just and equal Government .


id: A26184
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
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title:
  Three letters to Dr. Sherlock concerning church-communion wherein 'tis enquired whether the doctor's notion of church communion be not too narrow and uncharitable, both to dissenters, and men of larger principles / by a lay-man of the Church of England ...

summary:
  But to my thinking , while you blame Men for having no Notion at all of a Church , or no Notion of one Church , and that they know not wherein the Unity and Communion of this Church consists , you remove their Guilt , and grant that their Schism is involuntary , and only an Error of their Understandings . That there can be but one Church where all Priviledges and Duties are common , And but one and the same Institution of God's Appointment : That the Gospel-Covenant is the Foundation of the Christian Church .


id: A59791
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1693.0
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title:
  An apology for writing against Socinians, in defence of the doctrines of the Holy Trinity and incarnation in answer to a late earnest and compassionate suit for forbearance to the learned writers of some controversies at present / by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  But the whole Mystery of this Latitude and Simplicity of Faith which he pleads for , is that plausible Project ( which has been so much talked of of late : ) to confine our selves to Scripture Terms and Phrases ; to use none but Scripture Words in our Creeds and Prayers , without any Explication in what sense those words are to be understood : As he tells us , Certainly we may Worship God right well , yea , most acceptably , in words of his own Stamp and Coinage . It alters the way of our Salvation , as much as Faith in the Blood and Sacrifice of the Son of God , to expiate our Sins , differs from believing a great and excellent Prophet , and obeying his Laws .


id: A59883
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
title: A sermon preached before the Queen at White-hall, June 26, 1692 by William Sherlock ...
date: 1692.0
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summary:
  There is an inbred Greatness in human Nature , which does not care to confess its own weakness , which will not yield , or submit , or own a Conquest ; an untaught Courage , which supports the rude and illiterate part of mankind , even without Reason and Discourse ; which is improved by a sense of Honour in men of Fortune , increases by exercise and discipline , by hard labour , and difficult trials , and is lost by ease and luxury , and softness , which makes the Mind as tender as the Body , to feel all the Vicissitudes of Fortune , as a crazy and distempered body does the change of Weather . God has put a spirit into man , which can bear his Infirmity ; and if we have it not , it is our own fault . As for Instance : We must consider the state of the world , which is in a continual flux and motion , and does not long shew the same face of things ; that the various Lusts and passions of men among whom we live , will create a great deal of trouble to us ; and that our mortal bodies are liable to pain and hunger , and many Calamities .


id: A59833
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
title: Observations upon Mr. Johnson's remarks, upon Dr. Sherlock's book of non-resistance
date: 1689.0
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summary:
  Thus by laying the Scene under another Reign , we may take a just Estimate of the unaccountable Partiality we are guilty of in our own Cause , whereas there ought to be legitima personarum mutatio in order to the true understanding and practising the greatest and the most comprehensive Rule of Righteousness , Whatsoever you would that men should do unto you , do you even so unto them : Now if all the Priests in the Church of Rome were just such Casuists as you are , and all the People of that Communion could believe them , and would be directed by them , you might as well shackle the Hellespont , and commit the Sea to the Gate-House , or make any other Gotham-Act to hedge in these Cuckows ; for they upon this principle bid the same defence to any Law , Oaths or Tests that the power or wit of man can make , that you have done ( with less reason ) to Cambridge , and the Church Julia shall spead the rest ; the Heathen Poet corrects the Christian Priest. You say ( Page the sixth of your Preface ) that if King James had been a rightful King when he took Possession of the Crown ( as he was not but a publick Enemy ) he has since that time broken the Fundamental Contract : In these words there is one of the boldest and most notorious Falshoods that ever was broach'd , for he was certainly rightful King after the Death of his Brother , even though your malicious insinuation from his outliving him , had ( which it has not ) either weight or truth in it : The very Votes of both Houses of Convention acknowledge so much when they insisted upon the Abdication , without ever calling his Title into question ; besides if he had no right to succeed in the Throne , your Lord and the other Gentlemen of the Exclusion were much in the wrong ; had you made as much appear then , as you confidently assert now , you had sav'd the two Houses a great many angry debates , and the important Fortress of Tangier had been still in our hands , and undemolished ; and the lower House knew the importance of that place very well when they set the Bill of Exclusion upon it's head as the price of its Relief or Redemption rather ; and what necessity there was to shut out by Law , one that by Law had no right to come in , surpasses my discerning : yet farther , you prayed for him as King as oft as you did your duty in reading Common-Prayer ; now Men of mettle are seldom Hypocrites , and I cannot persuade my self you could in your Prayers to God acknowledge him to be King , whom in your Conscience you did not think rightfully and lawfully to be King : All prevarication is disengenuous and cannot become a Christian , much less one that waits at the Altar , and still less in the Service of God ; so that this consequence is self-evident , either you were a Hypocrite then , or worse now : As for what you say of his being excluded by three successive Houses of Commons , you might as well have told us that he was excluded by the Diet at Ratisbone , or the Swiss Cantons , for their Power was as great to exclude him as that of the Commons of England alone without the consent of the King and Lords : you have made as much of it as the case will bear , when you tell us it was a Caveat , and I suppose you know the Nature of a Caveat so well as not to stand in need of information what manner of treatment they commonly meet with in all places where they are entred .


id: A59803
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1691.0
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title:
  The case of the allegiance due to soveraign powers further consider'd, and defended with a more particular respect to the doctrine of non-resistance and passive-obedience : together with a seasonable perswasive to our New Dissenters / by Will. Sherlock ...

summary:
  For , can the Apostle be thought absolutely to condemn Resistance , if he makes it only unlawful to resist , wh●n we want power to conquer ? Which yet is all that can be made of it , if by every soul , the Apostle means only particular men , not the united force and power of the Subjects . Nor can there be any Reason assigned , why the Apostle should lay so strict a Command on particul●r Christians , to be subject to the higher Powers , which does not equally concern whole Na●ions ; for if it can ever be lawful for a whole Nation to resist a Prince , it may , in the same circumstances , be equally lawful f●r a particular man to do it . But Moses was not alwaies to rule over them , and therefore God expresly provides for a Succ●ssion of Soveraign Powers , to which they must all submit .


id: A59860
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1683.0
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title:
  The protestant resolution of faith being an answer to three questions : I. How far we must depend on the authority of the church for the true sense of Scripture? II. Whether a visible succession from Christ to this day makes a church, which has this succession, an infallible interpreter of Scripture, and whether no church, which has not this succession, can teach the true sense of Scripture? III. Whether the Church of England can make out such a visible succession?

summary:
  We believe the Articles of the Christian Faith , because we find them plainly taught in Scripture , and universally received as the sense of Scripture by the Catholick Church in the best and purest Ages of it : A Papist believes the Church to be infallible , because he thinks he finds it in Scripture , though the Catholick Church for many Ages never found it there , and the greatest part of the Christian Church to this day cannot find it there : Now if they will but allow , that a Protestant ( though a poor fallible Creature ) may reason about the sense of Scripture , as well as a Papist , and that the Evidence of reason is the ●●me to both , then we Protestants stand upon as firm ground as the Papists here , and are at least as certain of all those Doctrines of Faith , which we find in the Scripture , and are ready to prove by it , as they are of their Churches infallibility ; but then we have an additional Security , that we Expound the Scriptures right , which they want , and that is the Doctrine and Practice of the Primitive Church , which confirms all the Articles of our Faith , and Rules of Worship and Discipline , but gives not the least intimation , that the Pope or Church of Rome , was thought infallible by them , and if the Primitive Church was ignorant of this , which is the best witness of Apostolical Tradition , it is most probable , that no such thing is contained in Scripture , though some mercenary Flatterers of the Pope have indeavoured to perswade the World , that they found it there . If Scripture , and the sense of the Catholick Church , antecedently to the determinations of a General Council , or any other pretended Infallible Judge , be not a sufficient foundation for our Faith , then the whole Christian World , before the Council of Nice , which was the first general Council , had no sufficient Foundation for their Faith , for there was no particular Bishop , or Church in those days , which pretended to be the Infallible Interpreter of Scriptures .


id: A59859
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
title: A Protestant of the Church of England, no Donatist, or, Some short notes on Lucilla and Elizabeth
date: 1686.0
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  The Brittish Churches , for Six hundred Years after Christ , never had any Dependance on Rome ; and what was after this was only Usurpation , and an usurped Authority may be renounced without Schism . C. The Sacraments of Christ , which in the Sacrilege of Schism you [ Donatists ] have to Iudgment , will be profitable and wholsom to you , when you shall have the Head , Christ , in Catholic Peace , where Charity will cover a multitude of Sins .


id: A59900
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1697.0
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title:
  A vindication of Dr. Sherlock's sermon concerning The danger of corrupting the faith by philosophy in answer to some Socinian remarks / by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  He will Answer , God is the Object , not of Sense , which discerns him not , but of Reason , which discovers , and sees this most Glorious Being . Therefore Reason , by his Lordship 's own Argument , judges infallibly concerning God , and must determine our Belief about him : We must hearken to Reason , when it finds Contradictions in what men affirm concerning God.


id: A59831
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1696.0
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title:
  A modest examination of the authority and reasons of the late decree of the vice-chancellor of Oxford, and some heads of colleges and halls concerning the heresy of three distinct infinite minds in the Holy and Ever-blessed Trinity / by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  And when afterwards they more nicely distinguished between 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , they still used Hypostasis in the notion of Substance , that which did actually subsist ; which is therefore often rendred by the Latins extantia . But let us suppose ( and I am sure they ought to be thankful for such a Supposition , for their Notion of a Person will not admit it , unless they understand one thing by a Person when apply'd to the Father , and another when apply'd to the Son , and Holy Spirit ; but I say , let us suppose ) that the Divine Nature is originally in the Person of the Father , or that the Father is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , the unbegotten , self originated God , as he certainly is , and therefore a Divine substantial Person , who is essentially God : Now the very Name of Father is a relative Term , and signifies that he has a Son , begotten of himself ; and let any Man consider which sounds most like Blasphemy , both against the Father and the Son , to say , that the Father begets a Son , who is his own perfect Likeness and Image , the express Character of his own Substance ( 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ) of the same Substance with himself , but distinct in Substance , as Father and Son are , true and perfect God , as his Father is , without any other the least difference , but that one is the Father , and the other the Son ; or to say , that the Father begets no Substance at all , but only a Mode , or a Relation without a Relative , in his own Substance : That the Father begets Filiation , not a Son , but Sonship ; is not this to ridicule the Divine Generation , and to make Sport for Atheists and Hereticks :


id: A59882
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
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title:
  A sermon preached at the Temple-Church, May 29. 1692 printed at the desire of the Bench-Table of the honourable Society of the Inner-Temple / by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  To affix a proper and distinct signification on these words , Supplications , Prayers , Intercessions , and giving of thanks , which are recommended as the distinct parts of Prayer , Learned men tell us , that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , which we render Supplications , signifies Prayer to avert evils , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Prayers for the obtaining some good ; and that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , are properly Intercessions or Prayers for other men ; but this is too general a notion of it , since in this place the Apostle applies Supplications and Prayers , as well as Intercessions , to praying for other men , even for all men : And therefore the proper notion of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , is to intercede for a sinner , for the pardon of his sin , and to reconcile him again to God , whom he hath offended , as the word is most commonly used . Our Prayers for Kings , and all that are in Authority , it will be useful to show you , on what great Reasons this Duty is founded , of praying for all men , as well as for our selves ; and that both with respect to our selves , to other men , and to God.


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title:
  The copy of a letter sent to Dr. Sherlock, upon the occasion of his preaching at St. Margaret's on Jan. 30th. 1691

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  Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A80491) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 153141)


id: A59790
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1687.0
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title:
  An answer to the request to Protestants, to produce plain Scriptures directly authorizing these tenets

summary:
  An answer to the request to Protestants, to produce plain Scriptures directly authorizing these tenets Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707. 1687 Approx. An answer to the request to Protestants, to produce plain Scriptures directly authorizing these tenets Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.


id: A59789
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
title: An answer to the Amicable accommodation of the difference between the representer and the answerer
date: 1686.0
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summary:
  This short account shews , how impertinent all his examples of Misrepresenters are , who , as he says , did Misrepresent without belying men in matter of Fact ; for though this is nothing to us , unless he could prove us to be such Misrepresenters , which he has not once attempted to do ; yet the Examples he produces do not prove what he brings them for , for all their Misrepresentations are in matters of fact . To put an end to this Dispute about Misrepresenting , I told him , we did not like Popery , as he and the Bishop of Condom had Represented it , and shewed him our Reasons why we did not like it , as to the Object of Religious Worship , the Invocation of Saints , and the Worship of Images : And had he thought fit to have considered these , we might have obliged him so far , as to have confined the Dispute to his own Characters , and the Bishops Exposition , in the other points of Popery ; but he says not one word about this , but advances a new Paradox , that men may be Misrepresenters , though they do not Misrepresent any matter of Fact , because they may Misrepresent the Motives , Circumstances , Intention and End , as if this were not to Misrepresent matter of Fact ? Or as if we had Misrepresented them in this manner , when he had not , and cannot give any one instance wherein we have done so ?


id: A59819
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1688.0
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title:
  A discourse concerning the nature, unity, and communion of the Catholick Church wherein most of the controversies relating to the church are briefly and plainly stated / by William Sherlock.

summary:
  Where this is not , there is no Church ; and where this is , there is but one Church ; how many particular Churches , or distinct Communions soever this Church is divided into : From whence it as evident , that there never can be more than one Church in the World : for those Nominal Churches , which have not the same Lord , the same Faith , the same Baptism , are no Churches ; and all that have , are but one : Which makes it a ridiculous Triumph of the Church of Rome , as if we Protestants did not believe one Catholick Church , or could not tell where to find it , when we profess to believe but One Church , and that all true Churches are Members of this One Church . Now this is a mighty prejudice against any Notion , if it destroys the visibility of the Church , which is so plainly taught in Scripture , and does , for ought we know , unchurch the greatest Member of visible Church-Members ; if the Church consist only of those who were elected from all eternity , and are in time called by the Grace of God to a state of real Holiness and Sanctification , and made the living Members of Christ's Body , I cannot possibly see how there can be a visible Church on Earth ; for this internal Grace which makes a Church-Member is invisible , and therefore Church-Members are invisible too , and then I fear ,


id: A48200
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1689.0
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title:
  A letter to a member of the convention of states in Scotland by a lover of his religion and country.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. eng James -- II, -- King of England, 1633-1701.


id: A59878
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
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title:
  A sermon preached at White-Hall, before the Queen, on the 17th of June, 1691 being the fast-day / by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  Now in proportion to God's dealing with the Jewish Church , we have reason to hope , That though a Church and Nation which professes the true Faith and Worship of Christ , may be severely punished for their other Sins , yet while they preserve themselves clean from Spiritual Fornication , from all Antichristian Idolatries , God will not Un-Church them , nor deliver them finally up into the Power of Idolatrous Oppressors : I am sure we of this Nation , ever since the Reformation of Religion among us , though God has made us smart severely for our other Sins , have yet always found a watchful Providence defending us from all Attempts , though contrived with Art and Skill , and backed with Power , to reduce us again under the Roman Yoke . But in my Text he recollects himself , confesses his Wickedness and Sin in giving the least entertainment to such unworthy Thoughts of God , as if he could forget his Promise and Covenant , which he had made to their Fathers Abraham , Isaac , and Jacob , This is my infirmity ; want of Faith and Trust in God's Promises : and to cure this Diffidence , to revive his dying Hopes , and to confirm his Faith in God , he calls to mind those glorious Deliverances which God had wrought for his Church , and his People Israel in former Ages : I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High ; those days when God did so visibly deliver Israel with his own right hand ; as it follows 14 , 15 Verses , Thou art the God that doest wonders ; thou hast declared thy strength among the people .


id: A59834
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1686.0
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title:
  A papist not misrepresented by Protestants being a reply to the Reflections upon the Answer to (A papist misrepresented and represented.)

summary:
  By which , I suppose , he means , that all English Catholicks do own the Authority of the Council of Trent , and take their Rule of Faith from it ; but this is not , what the Answerer means by that Question ; Whether English Catholicks singly for themselves , and in their private Capacities , own the Doctrine of the Council of Trent ; but by what publick Act of Church or State it has been received in England , as it has been in other Catholick Countries . And this I confess were a just Exception against the Answer , if it were true ; but I challenge him to give any one Instance of it , wherein the Answerer has set up the judgment of private Authors against the declared Sense and Judgment of their Councils and Church .


id: A59897
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1691.0
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title:
  Their present Majesties government proved to be throughly settled, and that we may submit to it, without asserting the principles of Mr. Hobbs shewing also, that allegiance was not due to the usurpers after the late civil war : occasion'd by some late pamphlets against the Reverend Dr. Sherlock.

summary:
  Upon this , many suppose , that His Present Majesty cannot be King , de Iure , at least , during the Life of King Iames ; but yet may be obey'd , because the Law , made in the 11 th . of Henry 7 th . On other Occasions we make no Scruple to say , That a Sentence in a Court of Judicature , gives a Man a Title to an Estate ; and upon this , the Tenants and Vassals , though it were procur'd corruptly , are to look upon him , and pay him Homage , as the Legal Possessor ; and the like may be said in the Case before us , if our Representatives , without any good Reason , had plac'd His Majesty on the Throne , he had then been a King , de Facto , a Legal Possessor in the Eye of the Law ; but if they acted according to Reason and Conscience , as I presume they did , he is then King , de Iure .


id: A59876
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title:
  A sermon preached at the funeral of the Reverend Benj. Calamy, D.D. and late minister of St. Lawrence Jewry, London, Jan. 7th, 1686 by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  Now to Feed , signifies to instruct men in the Knowledge of Christ , for Knowledge is the proper food and nourishment of the Soul , by which it grows in Spiritual Wisdom , and all Vertue and Goodness ; and is as necessary to our Spiritual Life , as natural food is to the Life of our Bodies . Christ is the Head of the Church , the Husband , the Shepherd , the Lord , which are all names of Authority and Power ; and the Church is his Body , his Spouse , his Flock , his Houshold , and Family , which are names of Subjection , and denote a regular and orderly Society ; but Christ has now left this World , and does not visibly appear among us , to direct and govern the Affairs of his Church ; he is ascended into Heaven , where he sits at the right hand of God , and exerciseth an invisible Power and Providence for the defence and preservation of his Church on Earth : He governs us by his Laws , and by his Spirit , and by his Ministers : for when he ascended on high , he led captivity captive , and gave gifts to men .


id: A59869
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1692.0
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title:
  A second letter to a friend, concerning the French invasion in which the declaration lately dispersed under the title of His Majesty's most gracious declaration to all his loving subjects, commanding their assistance against the P. of Orange and his adherents, is entirely and exactly published, according to the dispersed copies : with some short observations upon it.

summary:
  James II, King of England, 1633-1701. So that Free-holders are not at all concern'd in this matter ; a Convention of Estates without a King , cannot meddle with their Properties without a dissolution of the Government ; But when there is no King , or it is a Question whether there be or not , or who is King by the Fundamental Constitution of the Government , the Convention of the Estates are the sole and proper Judges of it ; in whose Determination , all private Subjects are bound in Conscience to acquiesce .


id: A70177
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
title: An account of Mr. Ferguson, his common-place-book in two letters.
date: 1675.0
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  The reproach which Iulian slanderously fastned upon the Primitive Christians , that they had no ground for their Faith , but that their wisdom was only to believe , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Master Ferguson's next undertaking is , thirdly to prove , that no written Records besides the Bible can lay claim to the priviledge of being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Divine Inspiration : and here he considers the Ethnick Legislators , Poets , and Philosophers ; and especially the Alcoran , page 76 , &c. all which is done at large by Sir Charles Worsely , page 164 , &c. of which Master Ferguson has only given us a short and imperfect abstract .


id: A59792
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1687.0
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title:
  A brief discourse concerning the notes of the church with some reflections on Cardinal Bellarmin's Notes.

summary:
  Catholic Church -- Doctrines. The first concerning the Name Catholick , which makes every Church a Catholick Church , which will call it self so : Tho Catholick does not declare what a Church is , but in what Communion it is , and is no Note of a true Church , unless it be first proved , that they are true Churches , which are in Communion with each other : For if three parts in four of all the Churches in the World were very corrupt and degenerate in Faith and Worship , and were in one Communion , this would be the most Catholick Communion , as Catholick signifies the most general and universal ; but yet the fourth part , which is sincere , would be the best and truest Church , and the Catholick Church , as that signifies the Communion of all Orthodox and Pure Churches .


id: A52608
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title:
  Considerations on the explications of the doctrine of the Trinity by Dr. Wallis, Dr. Sherlock, Dr. S-th, Dr. Cudworth, and Mr. Hooker as also on the account given by those that say the Trinity is an unconceivable and inexplicable mystery / written to a person of quality.

summary:
  Considerations on the explications of the doctrine of the Trinity by Dr. Wallis, Dr. Sherlock, Dr. S-th, Dr. Cudworth, and Mr. Hooker as also on the account given by those that say the Trinity is an unconceivable and inexplicable mystery / written to a person of quality. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1022:7) Considerations on the explications of the doctrine of the Trinity by Dr. Wallis, Dr. Sherlock, Dr. S-th, Dr. Cudworth, and Mr. Hooker as also on the account given by those that say the Trinity is an unconceivable and inexplicable mystery / written to a person of quality.


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title:
  A letter to a friend concerning a French invasion to restore the late King James to his throne and what may be expected from him should he be successful in it.

summary:
  For if a French Power can Conquer us , it will make him as Absolute as the Fr●nch King will ●et him be ; or to speak properly , it will make him , though not an Absolute Prince , yet an Absolute Viceroy , and Minister of Fr●nc● : He will Administer an Absolute Power and ●overn●ent , under the influence and direction of French Councels : and then we know what will become of the Liberties and Religion of England . And have we so long disdained the thoughts of ●ubjection to France ? Has a French League been thought such a N●tional ●rievance ? Has the pretence of a War with France been found such an excellent expedient to get Money of English Parliaments ? Has the ex●e●tation o● it fired English spirits , and upon occasion filled our Armies and Navies , without need of Pressing or beat of Drum ? Have we so detested the French Cruelties to Protestants ? And shall we now so willingly stoop to the yoke , ●nd think it a great favour that they will vouchsafe to Conquer us ? Let us never complain hereafter , that our Chains pinch and gall us , when we our selves are ready with so much joy and thankfulness to put them on . Can any ●nglish-man , whatever opini●n he has of the late King●s Right , think himself bound in consci●nce to maintain his Right , by giving up his Countrey to France ? To make him King , and all his Subjects French Slaves ? For can any Prince have more Right to be King of England , than the Kingdom of England has to be England ?


id: A59898
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1685.0
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title:
  A vindication of a passage in Dr. Sherlock's sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, May 29, 1685 : from the remarks of a late pretended remonstrance, by way of address from the Church of England, to both Houses of Parliament.

summary:
  1. He says indeed this is not the Doctrine of the Church , and we believe it is not , if by Church he means the Universal Church of all Ages ; but yet it may be the Doctrine of the Church of Rome , which teaches a great many Doctrines which the Primitive and Apostolical Churches never heard of : and therefore though it be true what he says , That all the Ages before Gregory the Seventh were positively against the Deposing Doctrine ; That this was a Doctrine brought in in the Eleventh Century , against the Judgement and Practice of Ten before ; That the Fathers were not of this mind ; and a great deal to this purpose : yet this does not prove that the present Church of Rome does not teach this Doctrine ; which is plain matter of fact to be seen in the Decrees of their Popes and Councils , as he himself acknowledges . And if not , Are not such false Judgments , or erroneous Decrees , the Acts of the Judge , or of the Church still ? Let him but tell me , Whether he will have a Church or no Church , and he shall find me very civil in granting either ; but how this Doctrine will relish with good Catholicks , I cannot guess .


id: A71019
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
title: A letter to Anonymus in answer to his Three letters to Dr. Sherlock about church-communion
date: 1683.0
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  Your first Charge upon me is , that I only amuse People with Equivocal Words and Terms : that I play with the words , Church and Schism ; which had been no fault , had I played the right way with them , that is , had I ridiculed them , as you do , who think them words only fit to be played with , who have found out a Church without any Government , which is , only an Intreague between Clergy-men on all sides , who will not allow causeless Separation from a Sound part of the Catholick Church to be Schism , but place Schism wholly in want of Charity , and make it nothing else but some Divisions and Contentions between the Members of the same Church , who still live in Communion with one another ; a true Independent Notion to justifie causeless Separations . I make no inquiry , by whom they have been Baptized , or whether they were rightly Baptized or not ; but taking all these things for granted , I inquire whether Baptism do not make us Church-Members ; whether it makes us Members of a Particular or Universal Church ; whether a Church-Member be not bound to Communion with the whole Catholick Church ; whether he that separates from any sound part of the Catholick Church , be not a Schismatick from the whole Church ; whether we be not bound to maintain constant Communion with that particular Church , in which we live , and with which we can , when we please , Communicate occasionally ; whether it be consistent with Catholick Communion , to communicate with two Churches , which are in a state of Separation from each other : if you have any thing to say to these matters , you shall have a fair hearing ; but all your Queries , which proceed upon a mistaken Hypothesis of your own , do not concern me ; and yet to oblige you , if it be possible , I shall briefly consider them .


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  A resolution of some cases of conscience which respect church-communion viz. I. whether to communicate with some church, especially in such a divided state of the church, be a necessary duty incumbent on all Christians, II. whether constant communion be a necessary duty where occasional communion is lawful, III. whether it be lawful to communicate with two churches, which are in a state of separation from each other.

summary:
  God hath not made any Covenant in particular with the Church of Geneva , of France or England , but with the one Body and Church of Christ , all the World over ; and therefore the only thing , that can give us in particular a right to the Blessings of the Covenant , is , that we observe the conditions of this Covenant , and live in Unity and Communion with all true Christian Churches in the World , which makes us members of the Catholick Church , to whom the Promises are made . And this is the only obligation , I know of , to Communion with any particular Church , that as I am a Christian , I am a member of the Body and Church of Christ , and in a State of Communion , and therefore am bound to maintain Actual Communion with the Christian Church , where-ever I find it , and by Communicating with the Church , wherein I live , if it be a found and Orthodox member of the Christian Church , I maintain Communion with the whole Catholick Church , which is but one Body .


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title:
  An answer to a late scandalous pamphlet entituled A friendly debate between Satan and Sherlock, written by Thomas Danson by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  This is such a horrid piece of Knavery , as I thought the Devil himself would have blush'd to be the Author of : for who ever said , that God did not design the Glory of his Justice in the Damnation of men ? Nor the Glory of his Mercy in the Salvation of true Penitent Believers ? Who ever said , that God does not permit sins ? Or that he does not serve his own Glory by it ? And yet our Author has worded it so on purpose , as to bear this sense , and if this be not the sense of it , it cannot serve the Devils turn : whoever understands the nature of God , which is infinite goodness , or the Gospel of Christ , which makes such Glorious discoveries of the Divine Love , can never believe , that God from all eternity did decree to make Angels and Men , and to damn some and save others , without any respect to the good or evil , they should do , for no other reason but to Glorifie his Justice in the Damnation of some , and his Mercy in the Salvation of others , and that he might make a fairer show of Justice and Mercy , should not only permit , but decree and by irresistible Methods bring to pass the fall and sin of his creatures : And therefore I showed that all those Considerations which did naturally result from the contemplation of the Person of Christ , as he is the Eternal Son of God , who was made Man , and sent into the World to accomplish the work of our Redemption , did necessarily engage us to obey his Laws , but gave us no encouragement to expect any thing more from him upon his Personal account , than what he hath promised in his Gospel .


id: A59811
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1694.0
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mime: application/xml
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flesch: 53
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title:
  A defence of the Dean of St. Paul's Apology for writing against the Socinians in answer to the antapologist.

summary:
  It would be too tedious , and not very pertinent here , to run thorough these things ; but I am sure , for all his haste , the Dean has not in this place imputed any thing to the Socinians , but what they avowedly and in Print maintain ; for it is evident that the Socinians do deny the Meritorious Sacrifice , and the Meritorious Intercession of our Saviour ; that they do also deny that the Eternal Son of God Offered himself ; that God demonstrated his Love to us by sending his own Son in a proper sense , as opposed to a mere Man , or Created Spirit ; and consequently , they do deny the Humility and Condescension of the Eternal Son of God , in becoming Man , &c. and therefore these things are not iniquitously imputed to the Socinians , which yet are the very things which the Dean's Discourse imputes to them ; and therefore he has no reason to add , That some men Write against them without understanding them ; but I am afraid 't is too true , That some men Apologize for them without understanding th●m . In the next Section he confesses himself an 〈◊〉 ●o such open Disputes between Protestants , as only Pu●li●●●o the common Enemies the Divisions of the Protestants .


id: A59820
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1685.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
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sentence: 668
flesch: 54
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title:
  A discourse concerning the object of religious worship, or, A Scripture proof of the unlawfulness of giving any religious worship to any other being besides the one supreme God part I.

summary:
  The Jews were expresly commanded to worship no other Being , but the Lord Jehovah , as I have already proved , which Law appropriates all the acts of Religious Worship to one God ; and therefore all those , who were under the obligation of this Law ( as to be sure all natural Jews were ) could not without the guilt of Idolatry give any Religious Worship to any other Being , till this Law were expresly repealed , and express leave given to worship some other Divine Beings besides the Supreme God ; so that at least our Saviour himself , while he was on Earth , and subject to the Law , and his Apostles , and all believing Jews , were obliged by this Law to worship none but God , unless we can shew where Christ by his Legislative Authority , or his Apostles by Commission from him , have expresly repealed this Law ; nay , indeed ▪ unless we can shew , that Christ himself repealed this Law , and taught the worship of Saints and Angels , the Apostles themselves could have no authority to do it , for their Commission was onely to teach what Christ had commanded them , which though it does not extend to matters of order and discipline , and the external circumstances of worship , yet it does to all the essentials of Faith and Worship , and I think the right object of Worship is the most essential thing in Religious Worship . God -- Worship and love.


id: A59810
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1694.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 34566
sentence: 684
flesch: 40
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title:
  A defence of Dr. Sherlock's notion of a Trinity in unity in answer to the animadversions upon his vindication of the doctrine of the holy and ever Blessed Trinity : with a post-script relating to the calm discourse of a Trinity in the Godhead : in a letter to a friend.

summary:
  It is amazing to think what strange Conceits this Man must have of a Trinity of Persons , and Unity of Essence or Substance : For I am sure no Man has any Idea of an intelligent Nature and Essence distinguished from a Person , or of Persons distinguished from a rational Nature ; of a Divine Essence and Substance , which is no Person ; and of Divine Persons , which are no Substances , as it seems , they cannot be in the Animadverter's way , unless he also will compound every Person of Two Substances . The Animadverter objects against the Dean , That a Mind or Spirit is an absolute Being , Nature , or Substance ; and I grant it is so in the common use of the Word , as apapplied to created Minds and Spirits ; but so is Person also , as much as Mind ; and if we allow of a Theological use of the Word Person , why not of Mind too ? to signifie an intelligent Subsistence , which is a Mind too , but not a separate Mind , and therefore not such an absolute Being , Nature , and Substance , as a created Mind is .


id: A59904
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1691.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 38622
sentence: 783
flesch: 44
cache: cache/A59904.xml
txt: txt/A59904.txt
title:
  A vindication of The case of allegiance due to soveraign powers, in reply to An answer to a late pamphlet, intituled, Obedience and submission to the present government, demonstrated from Bishop Overal's convocation-book, with a postscript in answer to Dr. Sherlock's Case of allegiance, &c. by William Sherlock.

summary:
  So that it is evident , the Convocation itself answers the Difficulties of this Story by the Divine Entail ; and it is as true and proper an Answer to that Question , Whether we may Murther a King de Facto , to place the right Heir on his Throne , since Iohoiada anointed Ioash and slew Athaliah ? To say , That the Divine Entail of the Crown made a vast difference between the Case of Athaliah and other Kings de Facto , who are settled in their Thrones ; as it is to that Question , Whether the High-Priest have not Authority to Depose one King , and set up another , since Iehoiada actually did so , anointed Ioash and killed Athaliah ? To say , that this was done not by any ordinary Jurisdiction , which the High-Priest had over Kings , but in Obedience to God , who had Entailed the Crown on David's Posterity . This is the Case of Iehu , who was a Subject , but commanded by God to be anointed King over Israel ; and accordingly Elizeus the Prophet caused Jehu to be anointed , and God's Message to be delivered unto him ; who presently upon the knowledge of God's Will , and the submission of the Princes and Captains of Israel to him , as to their lawful King , did put in execution the said Message , by killing Joram ( before that time his Soveraign , , but then his Subject ) , &c. Now , I suppose , our Author will confess , that there is a difference between killing with Authority , and without ; and between killing a Soveraign Prince , and killing a Subject by the Authority of the Prince ; and this was the Case of Athaliah , when Ioash was anointed .


id: A59903
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1687.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 21725
sentence: 631
flesch: 63
cache: cache/A59903.xml
txt: txt/A59903.txt
title:
  A vindication of the Brief discourse concerning the notes of the church in answer to a late pamphlet entituled, The use and great moment of the notes of the church, as delivered by Cardinal Bellarmin, De notis ecclesiae, justified ...

summary:
  Whether there be a true Church , or not ; and what it is ; And though the Cardinal takes it for granted , that there is a Church , I demanded a proof of it , that they would give me some Notes whereby to prove that there is a true Church . This is nothing to the present Argument , ( as indeed it would be surprising to find him say any thing to the purpose ) but yet , if the most Catholick Communion , as that signifies the most Universal ( tho the Notes does not refer to Catholick Communion , but to the name Catholick ) were a Note of the true Church , it is not sufficient to say , That it is probable that God will not suffer a corrupt Communion to be the most Universal ; but he must prove , that God has promised this shall not be : And , if according to this Supposition , Lutheranism or Cranmerism had prevailed , three parts in four over the Church , how could the palpableness of the Schism secure his prudent Man from the Infection ? for if three parts of the Church were divided from the fourth , why should a prudent Man charge so much the greater number with the Schism ? Why should the three parts be the Schismaticks , and not the fourth ? 3ly , I observed another Mystery of finding the true Church by Notes , is to pick out of all the Christian Churches in the World , one Church which we must own for the only Catholick Church , and reject all other Churches as Heretical , or Schismatical , or Uncatholick Churches , who refuse Obedience and Subjection to this one Catholick Church .


id: A39265
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 31326
sentence: 826
flesch: 60
cache: cache/A39265.xml
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title:
  The Protestant resolved, or, A discourse shewing the unreasonableness of his turning Roman Catholick for salvation

summary:
  Having learn'd from her the sense of the Scripture , we are obliged to submit to this , and never presume on our own private Sentiments , however seemingly grounded on Reason and Scripture , to believe or preach any new Doctrine opposite to the Belief of the Church . Do not they tell us again and again , that both the Canon and the Sense of SCRIPTURE , depend , as to us , on the Authority and Interpretation of their Church ? And can its Testimony then possibly amount to any more than that Church's bare Word ? Do not they deny us a Iudgment of Discretion , whereby we should discern for ourselves , whether it speak fór or against their Church's Authority ? And will they yet produce it to convince us of the Authority by which alone we are both to receive and understand it ?


id: A59901
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 40183
sentence: 858
flesch: 40
cache: cache/A59901.xml
txt: txt/A59901.txt
title:
  A vindication of some Protestant principles of Church-unity and Catholick-communion, from the charge of agreement with the Church of Rome in answer to a late pamphlet, intituled, an agreement between the Church of England and the Church of Rome, evinced from the concertation of some of her sons with their brethren the dissenters / by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  This Combination of Churches and Bishops does not , and ought not to introduce a direct Superiority of one Bishop , or Church , over another ; or of such Synods and Councils over particular Bishops : Every Bishop is the proper Governour of his own Diocess still , and cannot be regularly imposed on against his consent . For this Reason , the Pope and Legates , and Italian Bishops opposed the Divine Institution of the Episcopacy , and for the same Reason the other Party so vehemently contended for it ; and then I will leave any man to judge , which of these two Opinions must pass for the Sense of the Council and Church of Rome : We wish with all our Hearts , the Church of Rome did agree with us in the Divine Institution of Episcopacy , which was the Sense of the Primitive Church ; but unless all Parties in the Council of Trent were very much mistaken , the Supremacy of the Pope , as it is Taught by that Council , does utterly overthrow the Divine Institution of Bishops , and make them onely the Pope's Creatures and Dependants .


id: A59899
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 44854
sentence: 1038
flesch: 50
cache: cache/A59899.xml
txt: txt/A59899.txt
title:
  A vindication of both parts of the Preservative against popery in an answer to the cavils of Lewis Sabran, Jesuit / by William Sherlock ...

summary:
  Because the Church tells me it is the Word of God ; Wherefore do you believe this to be the sense of Scripture ? Because the Church so expounds it : Is not this the true Resolution of the Roman Faith ? Is this Misrepresenting too ? This he severely censures , and says , that man is unworthy ever to see the face of God , who declares with Dr. Sherlock , that did God offer him the eternal possession of himself on this condition , that he should first suffer a thousand years , he would absolutely refuse it .


id: A59793
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1684.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 46181
sentence: 1115
flesch: 53
cache: cache/A59793.xml
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title:
  The case of resistance of the supreme powers stated and resolved according to the doctrine of the Holy Scriptures by Will. Sherlock ...

summary:
  Indeed I find some Learned men mistaken in this matter ; for they take it for granted , that what Samuel here calls the manner of the King , is such an abuse of power , as God had expresly forbid to Kings in the 17 of Deuter. Had the Apostle exhorted the Romans after this manner : Let no private and single man be so foolish , as to rebel against his Prince , who will be too strong for him : but if you can raise sufficient forces to oppose against him , if you can all consent to Depose or Murder him , this is very innocent and justifiable , nay an Heroical Atchievement , which becomes a free-born people : How would this secure the peace and quiet of the world ? how would this have agreed with what follows , that Princes are advanced by God , and that to resist our Prince , is to resist the Ordinance of God , and that such men shall be severely punisht for it in this world or the next ? for can the Apostle be thought absolutely to condemn resistance , if he makes it only unlawful to resist when we want power to conquer ? Which yet is all that can be made of it , if by every Soul the Apostle means only particular men , not the united force and power of Subjects . Nor can there be any reason assigned , why the Apostle should lay so strict a command on particular Christians to be subject to the higher Powers , which does not equally concern whole Nations .


id: A59822
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1696.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 29217
sentence: 584
flesch: 39
cache: cache/A59822.xml
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title:
  The distinction between real and nominal trinitarians examined and the doctrine of a real Trinity vindicated from the charge of Tritheism : in answer to a late Socinian pamphlet, entituled, The judgment of a disinterested person, concerning the controversie about the Blessed Trinity, depending between Dr. S--th, and Dr. Sherlock.

summary:
  for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 r. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 p. 49. l. 6. 52 What the Fathers meant by that Argument for the Eternity of the Son , that God was never 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , without his Word , p. 53 The Judgment of Cabassutius about this Argument , p. 54 Concerning Emanatory Causes and Effects , p. 56 SECT .


id: A59812
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1686.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 37972
sentence: 838
flesch: 48
cache: cache/A59812.xml
txt: txt/A59812.txt
title:
  A discourse concerning a judge of controversies in matters of religion being an answer to some papers asserting the necessity of such a judge : with an address to wavering protestants, shewing what little reason they have to think of any change of their religion : written for the private satisfaction of some scrupulous persons, and now published for common use : with a preface concerning the nature of certainty and infallibility.

summary:
  Suppose then we should grant , That the Pope , or Church of Rome were infallible , what advantage has a Papist for Certainty above a Protestant ? Does the Infallibility of the Pope make them all infallible ? These are the proper limits of all Human Authority , both in Church and State ; below this there is no Authority , and above it , it is not Human Authority ; for a blind Obedience can be due to none but God , and he himself seldom exacts it .


id: A59894
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1687.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 44984
sentence: 1208
flesch: 54
cache: cache/A59894.xml
txt: txt/A59894.txt
title:
  A short summary of the principal controversies between the Church of England, and the church of Rome being a vindication of several Protestant doctrines, in answer to a late pamphlet intituled, Protestancy destitute of Scripture-proofs.

summary:
  This he knew not how to reconcile , but by saying , That when the Church prayed for Saints and Martyrs , Prophets and Apostles , the meaning of her Prayers was not to intercede with God for them , but to praise God for their Graces and Vertues ; but when she prayed for meaner Christians , her Prayers were Intercessions for Pardon and Rest to their Souls ; and yet they were all prayed for in the same form of words , and the ancient Church made no such distinction between them : and thus he reconciles the matter by expounding the same words to two different and contrary senses , as they are applied to different subjects , which has taught the Church of Rome , when occasion serves , to soften her Prayers , by expounding them contrary to the plain and natural signification of the words : that the most direct and formal Prayers to Saints and the Virgin for all Temporal and Spiritual Blessings , when they please , shall signifie no more than a bare Ora pro nobis , Pray for us . When several Bishops who have originally all the same Authority in the Government of their several Churches , bestow different Powers on some Bishops , whom they advance above others with the Title and Authority of Metropolitans , or Patriarchs , with a Power of calling Synods , and receiving Appeals , and the principal Authority of Ordinations ; and govern their several Churches by such Ecclesiastical Laws , as are agreed on by common Consent , or the major Vote , This is a very useful Constitution , and of great Antiquity in the Church , if it had not its beginning in the Apostles times ; and for any Bishop or Church causelessly to break such a Confederacy as this , is a very great Evil , and has the Guilt and Crime of Schism ; but yet it does not seem to be such a Schism as divides the intrinsick Unity of the Catholick Church , and cuts off such a Church from the Body of Christ.


id: A59784
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1686.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
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flesch: 50
cache: cache/A59784.xml
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title:
  An ansvver to a discourse intituled, Papists protesting against Protestant-popery being a vindication of papists not misrepresented by Protestants : and containing a particular examination of Monsieur de Meaux, late Bishop of Condom, his Exposition of the doctrine of the Church of Rome, in the articles of invocation of saints, and the worship of images occasioned by that discourse.

summary:
  An ansvver to a discourse intituled, Papists protesting against Protestant-popery being a vindication of papists not misrepresented by Protestants : and containing a particular examination of Monsieur de Meaux, late Bishop of Condom, his Exposition of the doctrine of the Church of Rome, in the articles of invocation of saints, and the worship of images occasioned by that discourse. Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 823:9)


id: A71330
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1688.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 66956
sentence: 1221
flesch: 38
cache: cache/A71330.xml
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title:
  A preservative against popery. [Parts 1-2.] being some plain directions to unlearned Protestants, how to dispute with Romish priests, the first part / by Will. Sherlock ...

summary:
  But though we believe such things , when they are revealed by God , which Natural Reason could never have taught us , and which Natural Reason does not see the depths and mysteries of ; and therefore do not stint our Faith , and confine it within the narrow bounds of Natural Reason ; yet we use our Reason to distinguish a true from a counterfeit Revelation , and we use Reason to understand a Revelation ; and we Reason and Argue from revealed Principles , as we do from the Principles of Natural Knowledge : As from that Natural Principle , that there is but one God , we might conclude , without a Revelation , that we must Worship but one God : so from that revealed Doctrine of one Mediator between God and man , we may as safely conclude , that we must make our Applications , and offer up our Prayers and Petitions to God , onely by this one Mediator ; and so in other cases . And this can be known onely by Revelation ; for Reason cannot discover it , because it depends not upon any necessary Reason , but on the free and arbitrary appointment of God : as St. Paul tells us , That as no man knows the things of a man , but the spirit of man , that is in him ; so no man knoweth the things of God , but the spirit of God : That is , as no man can tell the secret thoughts and purposes of a man , nor how he will determine himself in matters of his own free choice and election :


id: A59840
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
title: A practical discourse concerning death by William Sherlock ...
date: 1689.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 75152
sentence: 1229
flesch: 38
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txt: txt/A59840.txt
summary:
  There are two or three places of Scripture , which are urged in favour of the contrary opinion , 14 Job 5. Seeing his days are determined , the number of his months are with thee , thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass . 7 Job 1. Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth ? are not his days also like the days of an hireling ? Which refer not to the particular period of every Man's life , but as I observed before , to the general period of humane Life , which is fixt and determined , which is therefore called the days or the years of Man , because God has appointed this the ordinary time of Man's life ; as when God threatens , that the Wicked shall not live out half their days , that is , half that time which is allotted for men to live on Earth ; for they have no other interest in these days , but that they are the days of a man , and therefore might be their days too . Man , who is so long a Child , and by such slow steps arrives to the use of Reason , and by that time he has got a little Knowledge , and is earnestly seeking after more ; by that time he knows , what it is to be a Man , and to what purpose he ought to live , what God is , and how much he is bound to Love and Worship him ; while he is ennobling his Soul with all Heavenly Qualities and Vertues , and Coppying out the Divine Image ; when the Glories of Humane Nature begin to appear , and to shine in him , that is , when he is most fit to live , to serve God and Men ; then I say , either this mortal Nature decays , and dust returns to its dust again , or some violent distemper or evil accident cuts him off in a vigorous age , and when with great labour and industry he is become fit to live , he must live no longer .


id: A59905
author: Sherlock, William, 1641?-1707.
date: 1691.0
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 86146
sentence: 1739
flesch: 45
cache: cache/A59905.xml
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title:
  A vindication of the doctrine of the holy and ever blessed Trinity and the Incarnation of the Son of God occasioned by the Brief notes on the Creed of St. Athanasius and the Brief history of the Unitarians or Socinians and containing an answer to both / by William Sherlock.

summary:
  Thus the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Love , which inspires us with the love of God , and gives us the reciprocal Testimonies of God's love to us : For the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost , which is given unto us , 5 Rom. 5. And as some of the Ancients represent it , he is that love , wherewith the Father and the Son love each other ; and therefore there is no question , but that he who unites Father and Son , and unites God to us , and us to God , by love , is united to Father and Son by love himself . He is that Holy Spirit , who renews and sanctifies us , and subdues our wills into a conformity and subjection to the will of God ; and therefore no doubt , but he has the same will with Father and Son.


