which presumably the Chronicler drew. The statement is not improbable, and the author of the Books of Kings notes the existence of such books as materials from which he drew; the possibility of the existence and activity of such a person in the time of Rehoboam is granted, and much of the material dealing with the end of the period of the Judges and with the beginning of the kingdom goes back to this time.

2. An opponent of Jeremiah living among the exiles, who sent a letter to Zephaniah the priest at Jerusalem blaming Jeremiah for advising the exiles to prepare for a considerable stay in Babylonia (Jer. xxix. 24 sqq.). Jeremiah declared Shemaiah to be a lying prophet and predicted his punishment and the destruction of his house.

8. An opponent of Nehemiah (Neh. vi. 10 aqq.), also a prophet and an associate of Sanballat (q.v.). He attempted to lead Nehemiah into a cowardly course so as to discredit him with the people.

(R. KITTEL.)

SHEPARD, THOMAS: Puritan; b. at Towcester (59 m. n.w. of London), Northampton, Eng., Nov. 5, 1604; d. at Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 25, 1649. He graduated at Emmanuel College, Oxford (B.A.,1623; M.A., 1627); was lecturer at Earl's Coln, 1627-30; was silenced for non-conformity by Laud, Dec. 16, 1630; became lecturer at Towcester; was employed as chaplain and tutor in the family of Sir Richard Darly, Buttercrambe, Yorkshire, for a year; was pastor at Heddon, Northumberland, another year, but was again silenced, 1633; and sailed for America, Dec., 1634, but was compelled by a storm to put back. He had to hide himself lest he should be taken, but finally, July, 1635, got away, and landed at Boston, on Oct. 3, and became minister at Cambridge, Feb., 1636, till his death. He took an active part in founding Harvard College and secured its location at Cambridge, and was prominent in the synod at Cambridge which ended the Antinomian controversy. In learning, piety, spiritual insight, and practical force he takes a first rank among Puritan divines; especially exemplified in his treatise, The Parable of the Ten Virgins Opened and Applied (1659; reprinted Aberdeen, 1838 and 1853, with biographical preface by J. Foote). In all he is said to have written 382 books and pamphlets, among which were New Englands Lamentation for Old Englanuls Present Errours and Divisions (1645); Certain Select Cases Resolved (1648); The Clear Sunshine of the Gospel Breaking Forth upon the Indians in New England (1646; reprinted, New York, 1865) ; and Theses Sabbaticte (1649). A collective edition of his works, with memoir by J. A. Albro (originally published Boston, 1847, reproduced in Lives of the Chief Fathers of New England, vol. iv., Boston, 1870), was published (3 vols., Boston, 1853). His Autobiography was published in Alexander Young's Chronicles of the First Planters of Massachusetts Bay (Boston, 1846).

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Besides the Autobiography and the memoir by Albro, ut sup.. consult: A. Whyte, Thomas Shepard;

W. B. Sprague. Annals of the American Pulpit, i. b9-88. New York, 1859; W. Walker, Creeds and Platforms of Congregationalism, ib. 1893; idem, Ten New England Leaders. ib. 1901; A. E. Dunning, Congregationalists in America, ib. 1894; DNB, lii. 50-51.

SHEPHERDS. See PASTORAL LIFE, HEBREW, III.

SHERATON, JAMES PATERSON: Canadian Anglican; b. at St. John, N. B., Nov. 29, 1841; d. in Toronto Jan. 24, 1906. He was educated at the University of New Brunswick (A.B., 1862), and received his theological training at the University of King's College, Windsor, N. S., and privately with the bishop of Fredericton. He was ordered deacon in 1864 and ordained priest in the following year. After being a missionary at Weldford, Shediac, and Petersville, N. B., successively (1865-73), he was rector of St. James', Pictou, N. S. (1874-77). From 1877 till his death he was principal and professor of Biblical and systematic theology in Wycliffe College, Toronto, and after 1889 honorary canon of St. Alban's Cathedral, Toronto.

SHERLOCK, RICHARD: Church of England; b. at Oxton, a township on the peninsula of Wirral (s.w. of Liverpool), Cheshire, Nov. 11, 1612; d. at Winwick (17 m. e. of Liverpool), Lancashire, June 20, 1689. He was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and Trinity College, Dublin (M.A., 1633). Until 1641 he was minister of small parishes in Ireland; and proceeded to Oxford where he was chaplain of the garrison and of New College, 1644-48. He was expelled thence, 1648, and ejected from the curacy of Cassington, 1652, owing to his stanch Anglican loyalism; became private chaplain, 16521662; and, with the Restoration, rector of Winwick, 1662-89. In controversy with the Friends he pubished The Quakers Wilde Questions Objected against the Ministers of the Gospel and many Sacred (lifts and Offices of Religion, with Brief Answers thereto. Together with a Discourse of the Holy Spirit, his Impressions and Workings on the Souls of Men (London, 1854). His main work was Mercurius Christianus; the Practical Christian, a Treatise Explaining the Duty of Self-Examination (1673 and often; the 6th ed., including a biography by his nephew, Thomas Wilson, 1713; 7th ed., 2 vols., Oxford, 1841-44).

BmLIoaRAPHY: Consult, besides the life by Wilson, ut sup.: T. D. Whitaker, History of Richmondehire, 2 vols., London, 1823; J. H. Overton, The Church in England, 2 vols., ib. 1897; DNB, Iii. 92-93.

SHERLOCK, THOMAS: Church of England, son of William Sberlock; b. at London in 1678; d. there July 18, 1761. He was educated at Cambridge (B.A.,1697; M.A., 1701); was master of the Temple, 1704-53; became prebendary of St. Paul's, 1713; was master of St. Catherine's Hall, 1714-19; became dean of Chichester, 1715; canon of Norwich, 1719; bishop of Bangor, 1727; of Salisbury, 1734; and of London, 1748. The Use and Intent of Prophecy (London, 1725) was a compendium of six sermons against the Deists; his most famous work was The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus (1729, and often). Besides this may be noted