William Sherwin

William Sherwin (1607–c.1687) was an English minister. He acted as lecturer or assistant to the Rev Josias Byrd, the Rector at the church of St Mary the Virgin at Baldock.

Life The Dictionary of National Biography suggests that he was either silenced in 1660 or ejected in 1662. He wrote a number of works on biblical and theological themes.

He died at Fowlmere, Cambridge, in the house of his son-in-law, aged about 80. Sherwin married, on 11 September 1637, Dorothea Swan, described as ‘generosa.’ His son (also called William Sherwin) became a notable engraver.

Publications His publications included; Prodromos the fore-runner of Christ's peaceable kingdom upon earth. (1665) Exanastasis, or, The saints rising out of the heap or mass of dead bodies contained in the globe of the earth and sea ... Rev. 20. 5 (1674) An additional supplement to the Eirenikon (1674) The true news of the good new world shortly to come (Heb. 2. 5.) for all such as then shall be found real saints (1675)