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A Preservative Against Popery By William Sherlock. 1688 Fourth Edition of the First Part & Second Edition of the Second Part, Printed in London for William Rogers. The Volume is in Very Good Condition Disbound, with most gathers loose, and with generally clean amply margined leaves, and with some mild toning & small fox marks in the second part with a tear on the order to print page.and some marginal creasing and fraying otherwise. The Volume is Complete in All Respects with imprimatur leaf to the first part, half-title to the second part, as well as advertisement at the end of each. The volume is paginated as follows: [iv], 90, [vi], 91, [1]. The volume collates as follows: [A]2, B-M4, N2, [A]-M4. Each leaf measures about 200 mm by 155 mm. William Sherlock was born at Southwark and was educated at St Saviour's Grammar School and Eton, and then at Peterhouse, Cambridge. In 1669 he became rector of St George's, Botolph Lane, London, and in 1674, he showed his controversial tendencies by an attack on a Puritan John Owen, in The Knowledge of Jesus Christ and Union with Him. In 1681, he was appointed a prebendary of St Paul's and in 1683 he was made master of the Temple. 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 generally accepted by the High Church clergy. In 1686, he was reproved for his antipapal preaching and his controversy with the king's chaplain, Lewis Sabran; his pension was stopped. Sherlock s entries in the pamphlet war were primarily his first and second parts of the Preservative against Popery and then Vindication thereof, attacking pamphlets from Saban such as Dr. Sherlock Sifted from his Bran and Chaff, An Answer to Dr. Sherlock's Preservative, Dr. Sherlock's Preservative Considered. After the English Revolution, he was suspended for refusing the oaths to William and Mary, but before losing his position, he yielded, justifying his change of attitude. 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. Visit our website for More Images and/or Binding Spins.
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