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Brief Account of the Rev . TV . . Hopkinsy by the Rev . F . Stone . Sir , I now proceed to communicate to ypu some particulars respecting the Rev . Williant Hopkins , rector of Bolney , and curate of Cuckfield , Sussex , author of
" An Appeal to the Common Sense of all Christian People , ' *—in favour of the Arian Trinity , as opposed to the Athanasian hypothesis . —He also published a larger tract , on the same subject , of which the title does not occur to my memory . *—Having passed out of
* The title of the work , an 8 vo . vol . of upwards of 5 OO pages , referred to by Mr , Stone , is as follows , — " The Trinitraan Controversy Reviewed : or , a Defence of the Appeal to the Common Sense of all Christian People , &cc 9 wherein every . Particular advanced by the Rev . Dr . M'Donnell , in his Sincere Christian's
Answer to the Appeal , is distinctly con sidered ; several other Subjects relative to the Question are discussed ; and an humble Attempt is made to put a final Period , if possible , to this Controversy ,
by a . solemn Address to the most judicious Defenders of the Athanasian Trinity . By the Author of the Appeal . Lon " don . Millar . 1760 . * ' There is subjoined to the volume , an " Examination of the
Bishop of London's Discourse upon Philipp . iu 6— -11 . " The reader will find tome biographical particulars of Mr . Hopkins , Month * Repos , vol . i . pp . 337 *—340 . El > -
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a slate of celibacy into that of matrimony , it was eligible for me to leave my Uncle ' s ( Mr . Taylor ' s ) curacy , and remove to another , that of Worth ., about six miles from East-Grimtead , Sussex . —
The parish was thirty miles in circumference . Mr . Hopkins , hearing that a young Ariun ^ ( fo r I always scorned to disguise my theological opinions , and , without
reserve , professed what I believed to be the truth ) , with his wife , was situated in the parsonage of Worth , embraced the first opportunity to make me a visit . When two
nominal heretics meet , . you , Sir , are capable of conceiving the mutual , heartfelt satisfaction they enjoy in each other's company and conversation . After the first
salutations had passed , a do suppose that we talked as many hours together as Fa 1 staff boasts he fought by-Shrewsbury Clock , M » . Hopkins introduced me to another Arian ,
the Rev . Mr . Bristed , rector of Slaugbam , Sussex , and a native of Shaftesbury , Dorset . H ^ re , by the bye , I must observe , that , at that time , the year 1762 , all social intercourse with
Arian-Christians was most scrupulously avoided by rigid , bigoted Athanasian . Trinjtarians , and more so , I should hop < v than b the ca *? at
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY OF Theology and General Literature ,
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No . XCI . JULY . [ Vol . VIII .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/1/
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