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Thomas Sherlock
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Thomas Sherlock : [sermons]
'She read sermons and other religious books, her favourite sermons being "professedly practical", without too much "Regeneration and Conversion", especially Sherlock's'.
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
Thomas Sherlock : Sermons on various subjects, moral and theological, now first published
'In the even and the day read 6 of Bishop Sherlock's sermons, which I think extremely good, there being sound reasoning in them and seem wrote with an ardent spirit of piety, being mostly levelled against the deists.'
Century: 1700-1799 Reader/Listener/Group: Thomas Turner Print: Book
Thomas Sherlock : Sermons
'I have been keeping rather different hours--though the Priory is far from a late place [...] Wm. [Lady Caroline's husband William Lamb] & I get up about ten or 1/2 after or later [...] have our breakfasts, talk a little, read Newton on the Prophecies with the Bible--having finished Sherlock [...] he goes to eat & walk--I finish dressing & take a drive or little walk [...] then come up stairs where William meets me, & we read Hume with Shakespear till ye dressing bell, then hurry & hardly get dressed by dinner time'.
Century: 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Caroline Lamb Print: Book
Thomas Sherlock : Several Discourses Preached at the Temple Church
'I am very fond of Sherlock's Sermons, prefer them to almost any.'
Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849 Reader/Listener/Group: Jane Austen Print: Book
?Thomas Sherlock : Sermons
[Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth Vesey, 8 December 1773:] 'When I recommended Sherlock's Sermons, I believe I did it with some exception; many, indeed most of them, are very excellent. Most of those in which he defends the general truth of Christianity, and answers the cavils of unbelievers, are writ with a clearness and a spirit which are seldom equalled. But in others he is obscure and confused, and seems either not to have understood himself, or not to have wished to be understood by others. Archbishop Secker's Sermons are absolutely free from these objections, and are, I think, upon the whole the most calculated to awaken the conscience and amend the heart, of any that perhaps were ever published.'
