Jane Austen, wrote to her niece Anna in 1814, "I am very fond of Sherlock's Sermons, prefer them to almost any."
Several Discourses Preached at the Temple Church. By Thomas Sherlock. The Fifth Edition. London: J. Whiston, B. White, and E. Baker, 1759.
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Thomas Sherlock was a British divine who served as a Church of England bishop for 33 years. He is also noted in church history as an important contributor to Christian apologetics.
He published against Anthony Collins's deistic Grounds of the Christian Religion a volume of sermons entitled The Use and Intent of Prophecy in the Several Ages of the World (1725); and in reply to Thomas Woolston's Discourses on the Miracles he wrote a volume entitled The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus (1729), which soon ran through fourteen editions. His Pastoral Letter (1750) on the late earthquakes had a circulation of many thousands, and four or five volumes of Sermons which he published in his later years (1754–1758) were also at one time highly esteemed.
Since the Deist controversy, Sherlock's argument for the evidences of the resurrection of Jesus Christ has continued to interest later Christian apologists such as William Lane Craig and John Warwick Montgomery. His place in the history of apologetics has been classified by Ross Clifford as belonging to the legal or juridical school of Christian apologetics.
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Size: 133 x 201 mm (approx., each)
Condition:
[viii, 399pp, i (advertisements)]; [viii, 424pp]; [viii, 400pp]; [vi, 394pp]
Uniform full calf with raised bands and tooled morocco labels to each volume. A little loss to gilt of volume numbers and dulling of tooled labels with the spines a little dulled. Some minor rubbing etc to bindings but generally are very good with all boards securely attached. No shelf lean. Some small marks to boards including a circular mark to the front board of the first volume. Generally very clean throughout the text blocks with endpapers foxed. Penultimate blank in fourth volume torn without loss.
An excellent set.
