PREACHED AT

THE TEMPLE CHURCH,

AND ON

SEVERAL OCCASIONS.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

DISCOURSES

ON THE

USE AND INTENT OF PROPHECY:

TOGETHER WITH

DISSERTATIONS;

A CHARGE TO THE CLERGY OF THE DIOCESE OF

LONDON;

A LETTER ON THE EARTHQUAKES IN MDCCL;

AND

THE TRIAL OF THE WITNESSES OF THE RESURRECTION

OF JESUS.

BY

THOMAS SHERLOCK, D.D. LATE LORD BISHOP OF LONDON, AND MASTER OF

THE TEMPLE.

A NEW EDITION, IN FOUR VOLUMES.

VOL. IV.

OXFORD,
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS.

MDCCCXII.

Clans Press

1. c. 57

CONTENTS

OF

THIS EDITION.

VOL. I.

Discourses preached at the Temple Church,

1-XXV.

VOL. II.

Discourses preached at the Temple Church,

XXVI-LII.

VOL. III.

Discourses preached at the Temple Church,

LIIILXIII.
Occasional Discourses, I-XIV.

VOL. IV.

Sir Discourses on the Use and Intent of Pro-
phecy in the several Ages of the World.

Four Disertations :

I. The Authority of the Second Epistle of

St. Peter.

II. The Sense of the Ancients before Christ

upon the Circumstances and Confe-

quences of the Fall. With an Appen-

dix.

III. The Blessing of Judah, Gen. xlix.

IV. Christ's Entry into Jerusalem.

A Charge to the Clergy of the Diocese of Lon-

don.

A Letter to the Clergy and People of London

and Westminster on Occasion of the

Earthquakes in 1750.

The Trial of the Witnesses of the Resurrection

of Jesus.

CONTENTS

OF

VOL. IV.

SIX DISCOURSES.

DISCOURSE I.

2 Pet. I. 19.

We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye

do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in

a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise

in your hearts.

I

FOUR DISSERTATIONS.

1. The Authority of the Second Epistle of St.

Peter.

129

II. The Sense of the Ancients before Christ upon

the Circumstances and Consequences of the

Fall.

151

Appendix to Dissertation II.