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present , with Unitarian Christians , who advocate the strict , literal , only humanity of Christ . But be that as it may , our Arian triumvirate sought mutual improvement , without the least uncharitable censure of our antagonists . As Messrs . Hopkins and Brisied were elderly men , and pains-taking , free
investigators of gospel . truths , and 1 a mere tyro-theologus , I profited much by their superior knowlege and experience , like Timothy , Paul's young son in the faith /* I was delighted to find Mr . Bristed an excellent Hebrsean . Convinced by the arguments of his learned friend , the Rev . Dr .
Gregory Sharpe , late master of the Temple , advanced in his valuable * ' Dissertation on the Origin and Affinity of Languages , ' * that the Masorites had invented the vowel , points , with a view to perplex the Christians in the pronunciation of the language , Mr . Pristed had totally discarded them , retaining only the mappik , tljus * , which doubles a consonant . After the JDr . he made K , n , % y , and *) , the five vowels , a , e , i , o , and u , and in pronouncing the
incommunicable name of God , n"ln % read Jeve , or Yeve , instead of Jehovah . For , as the word consisted of four vowels , it could not be pronounced without making the first and third consonants , for y and v . Unwilling to give up the
vowelpoints , in which 1 had been instructed by Dr . Hunt , I solicited from Mr . Bristed the loan of Dr . Sharpe n s work , with which he readily complied . — On the perusal I found the Doctor ' s arguments so sound and satisfactory , that , like Mr . Bribed , I adopted his plan respecting the f \ ve vowels , supplying , after his example , the
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426 Brief Account of the Rev . CF . Hopkins .
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want of a vowel where two consonants meet , with a short a , a , or rather a short e , e , or epsilon , ? . The Dr ' s . Dissertation must now probably be out of print , but well deserves to be reprinted for the benefit of the younger clergy , who wish to be proficients in tjie study
of the Hebrew , or rather the Chaldee , characters . During my residence , of nearly three years , in the parsonage of Worth , an intimacy , and consequently au agreeable interchange of visits , took place between Messrs , Hopkins and Bristed and myself . Mr . Hopkins married t ) ie widovy
of a carpenter , who had a daughter by her former husband , both whom I have seen , as also his only child , a son , by her * He resided at Cuckfield , a market * . town , and officiated on Sundays , morningandafternoon , alternately , at his own . parish-church , of
Bolney , and at that of Cuckfield , a short distance from the former . — In my last visit to my worthy friend , from Saturday to Monday , having obtained 3 , supply for mjr Sunday-duty from a neighbouring clergyman , I mounted the
pulpit in his stead , on the afternoon of the Spnclay . r Jphe congregation was large and respectable . Mr . Hopkins officiated in the desk , and , in reajding the Evening $ ervice , altered parts of $ he Liturgy * adapting them to his Arian
opinions , and in particular , in the frequently-repeated dpxolpgy ^ "To God the Father , " $ c . t | e Vas so beloved by his parishioners , and by the inhabitants of Cuckfield , that they scorpefj to present hinj , to th& bishop , for these alterations .
Tl * e RigtH Eev . $ \ r William Ashburnham , Bart , was then the Diocesan of Chichester , © ! what
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1813, page 426, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2430/page/2/
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