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He was appointed Professor of Greek at Cambridge, and also lectured on Mathematics.
He was a profound thinker and a weighty writer, principally known by his courses of sermons on the Decalogue, the Creed, and the Sacraments. _Edward Stillingfleet_, 1635-1699: a clergyman of the Church of England, he was appointed Bishop of Worcester.
Many of his sermons have been published.
Among his treatises is one entitled, _Irenicum, a Weapon-Salve for the Churches Wounds, or the Divine Right of Particular Forms of Church Government Discussed and Examined_.
"The argument," says Bishop Burnet, "was managed with so much learning and skill that none of either side ever undertook to answer it." He also wrote _Origines Sacrae, or a Rational Account of the Christian Faith_, and various treatises in favor of Protestantism and against the Church of Rome. _William Sherlock_, 1678-1761: he was Dean of St.Paul's, and a writer of numerous doctrinal discourses, among which are those on _The Trinity_, and on _Death and the Future Judgment_.
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