Sherlock, Martin, was an Irisli divine and chap- lain to the earl of Hristol during the latter part of the last century. He left the following works: Cunsif/lio ad tin Giovane Poetn (counsel to a young poet) (Naples, 1779, 8vo): — IjCttres iPnn ]'oy(iijeur Ani/lnis ((iciieva, 1779; Neufchatel, 178], 8vo ; in Englisli [not by the author], Lond. 17K0, 4to) : — Letters, nn various sulijects (1781, 2 vols. 12mo): — New Letters from an Eni/lish Traveller (1781, 8vo). See Allibone, Z/ic^. of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, a, v.
Sherlock, Richard, D.D., an English clergy- man, was born at Oxton, Cheshire, in 1613; and was educated at jNIagdalen Hall, Oxford, and Trinity Col- lege, Dublin. He was minister of several parishes in Ireland, and afterwards became rector uf Winwick, Eng- land. He died in 1689. His works are, Ansu-er to the (luakers' Objection to Ministers ( Lond. 1656, 4to ) : — Quakers' Wild Questions A nsicered (ibid. 1656, 12mo) : — Merciirius Christiamis,or The Practical Christian (ibid. 1673, 8vo) : — and Sermons, etc. See Allibone, Diet, of Brit, and A mer. A uthors, s. v,
Sherlock, Thomas, an English prelate, was the son of Dr. William Sherlock (q. v.), and was born in London in 1678. He early went to Eton, from which (about 1693) he was removed to Cambridge, and was admitted into Catherine Hall. He took his degree of Bachelor of Arts in 1697, and that of Master of Arts in 1701. Between these dates he entered the ministry, and was appointed to the mastership of the Temple in 1704, which he held until 1753. In 1714 he took his degree of Doctor of Divinity, became master of Cather- ine Hall and vice-chancellor of the Laiiversity of Cam- bridge, and in 1716 was created dean of Chichester. He was created bishop of Bangor in 1728, of Salisbury in 1734; and in 1747 the see of Canterbury was offered to him, but he declined it on account of ill-health. The following year he accepted the see of London. He died in 1761. Bishop Sherlock published, in opjjosition to Dr. Hoadly in the Bangorian Controversy, The Use and Intent of Prophecy : — Trial of the Witnesses of the Res- urrection of Jesus : — and a collection of his Discourses. The first complete edition of his works was published (Lond. 1830) in 5 vols. 8vo. See Chalmers, Bioy. Did. s. V. ; Chambers's Encyclop. s. v.
Sherlock, William, D.D., a learned English di- vine, was t)orn in Southwark, London, in 1641, etincated at Eton, and thence removed to Peter House, Cambridge, in May, 1657. He was made rector of St. George's. Bo- tolph Lane, London, in 1669. In 1()80 he received the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and in 1681 was collated to a prebend of St. Paul's. He was master of the Temple in 1684, and had the rectory of Therfeld. Hertfordshire. Kefusing to take the oaths at the Kevolution, he was sus- pended ; but' complying in 1690, he was restored, and be- came dean of St. Paul's in the following year. He died at Hampstead, June 19, 1707, and was interred in St. Paul's Cathedral. More than sixty of his publications are given, of which we notice the folk)wing: Discourse concerning the Knowledge of Jesus Christ, etc. (Lond. 1674, 8vo): — Defence and Continuation of the same (ibid. 1675,8vo) : — The Case of Resistance to the Supreme Potcers Stated, etc. (ibid. 1684, 8vo). See Chalmers, Bioff. Did. s. v.
Sherman, Charles, a IMethodist Episcopal minis- ter, was born in Woodbury, Conn., Oct. 20, 1803. He was converted in his seventeenth year, licensed as a local preacher in 1823, and admitted into the itinerancy in 1830, laboring successively in Stratford and Burlington in the New York Conference, and Albany and Troy in the Troy Conference, to which he was transferred in 1834. In 1838 he was appointed presiding elder in Albany Dis- trict, in which he labored four years. In 1842, owing to failing health, he wasajipointed to Jt)ncsville, a small sta- tion in Saratoga ('onnty, N. ^'. ; in 1843 to Troy, where he died, March 10, 1H44. ]\Ir. Sherman was an excellent preacher, clear in his method, and forcible in his maimer of address. See Minutes of A nnual Conferences, iii, 582 ; Spragne, -1 nnals <f the Amer. Pulpit, vii, 679.
Sherman, John (1), a Congregational minister, was born at Dedliam, England, Dec. 26, 1613. He was e<lucated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He came to New ICngland in 1634. preached a short time at Wa- tertown, and moved to New Haven, where he was made a m.agistrate and lived until 1614, when he accepted an invitation to become pastor at Watertown. There he labored until his death, Aug. 8, 1685. See Sprague, A nnals of the A mer. Pulpit, i, 44.
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Sherman, John (2), a Unitarian minister, was hnrn in New Haven, Conn., June 30, 1772, entered Yale Col- lege when not far from sixteen years of age, and grad- uated in 1792. He studied theology partly under pres- ident Dwight, but mainly under Kev. David Austin, of Elizabeth, N.J. He was licensed to preach by the New Haven Association in 1796, and was ordained and in- stalled pastor of the First Church, Mansfield, Conn., Nov. 15, 1797. Not long after his settlement he began to doubt the doctrines he had been accustomed to believe and preach, especially that of the Trinity. On Oct. 23, 1805, he received a dismissal from a council called for the purpose, and became pastor of the Reformed Chris- tian Church (Unitarian) at 01denl)arneveld (Trenton village), N. J., Jlarch 9, 1806. After preaching a short time, he established an acailemy in the neighborhood, whicVi occupied his attention for many years. In 1822 he built a hotel at Trenton Falls, into which he removed the next year. He died Aug. 2, 1828. He published, One God in One Person Only, etc. (1805, 8vo), the first formal and elaborate defence of Unitarianism that ever appeared in New England: — .4 Vieic of Ecclesiastical Proceedings in the County of Windom, Conn. (1806, 8vo) : — Philosophy of Languai/e Illustrated (Trenton Falls, 1826, 12mo): — Description of Trenton Falls (Utica, 1827, 18mo). See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, viii, 326.