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To this subject the attention of Mr . Hopkins was naturally excited , by the publication of the Confessional in which the Appeal is mentioned with great respect * , by his zealous attendance on the meetings of the Clergy in 1711 , to petition " for relief in the matter of subscription / ' called the Feathers' T a ^
yern Association , and the subsequent publications on that subject . The Association was promoted by several churchmen who have since risen to great preferment , particularly by thrqe dignitaries who , from their eminence on the Episcopal Bench , have long discovered that their ' s is iC the best-constituted
Church in the world , " or rather , according to an author just quoted , who were cc active for reformation in early life , but lulled to indolence by the opiate of preferment f . " The dignitaries to whom 1 refer are , the Drs . Porteus , Yorke , and Percy , the present Bishops of London , Ely , and Dromore J .
To return to Mr . Hopkins . He had the merit of encouraging by his correspondence " that serious and extraordinary person ^ George Williams , who was a livery-servant at Tewkeshury , " a man possessed 6 C of mother-wit , and learn'd without the
schools . " Mr . Williams published two smaty tracts : in 1765 ^ * An Attempt to restore the Supreme Worship of God the Father Almighty ;' and , in 1767 , " The Articles of the Chiircti weighed against the Gospel , and found wanting , " The last years of Mr . Hopkins were spent in a manner be * coming the profession he had made through life . In a letter to the Author of the Memoir of which I have so much ayaile 4
jnyself , he thus describes the occupations of his declining age , 46 The Scriptures are my principal study , and I take a great delight in comparing the Hebrew With the Greek , Latin , and English translations ; and employing all the helps my little library affords . When I have finished the whble , I propose beginning again , and so keeping on reading the Scriptures tilj
death overtakes me , " This event happened in A pril 1786 , when he was in the 80 th year of his age . Besides the Appeal /* Mr . Hopkins was the author of two pr three tracts on the subject of subscription , and Ki A Corrected Translation of Exodus , with Notes critical and expla-i natory , 4 to , 1784 . " 1 an ^ Sir your ' s , Hackney , May 14 , 18 Q 6 ? Socius , * Life of W . L 360 , Ed . ad . f Id . p . xtj , i Ibfd . Note ( n ) or JLindsev ' s Vind , Pric 8 tlc | an » , p . 51 , ^ .
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340 Rev . IV . Hopkins .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 340, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/4/
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