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    you should not receive a more full and satisfactory ; one ffcos * any other person . Mr . Hopkins , in the early part of his life ^ was usher at * grammar-school at Cu ekfiel < Jf in the * county of Sussex . It i * supposed that about the year IT 50 he became curaSe at Wai * dron , in the same county ^ and that then he published hi *

    ** Appeal , &c . " At a later period he was chosen Master o ^ P the grammar-school at Cuckfi ^ U in Su sse x , and appointed V 14 car of Bolrjey , and Curate of Slangharo , parishes not very distant from the place o £ his residence ^ It appears that Mr / Hop-Icins published several defences of his " Appeal ; * In tHe latter part of his . life , he sent forth another work : the title is as £ bl ~

    lows— Exodus : a Corrected Translation , with Notes © riti-€€ cal and Explanatory . By W . H og ^ a ^^ B . A . Vicar o |^ *< Bblney , and Master of tJ ^ Gram i ^^ ScKloJ of CucJcfieJd | " Sussex . London : printed for J . Jbhinson r No / 72 , St . I ^ l ^; u Church-yarcf . 17 S 4 / 5 This vyas the only p ^ rferpaanc ^ which he affixed his name . Mr . H ^ is regreserited to ^ ^ ycl ' been a manwhose character was marked with some traits ofl

    , eccentricity ; but it is said that he was a person of great I ^ ra ^ ing and piety . Like many other celebrated characters * whojse ,: sentiments have not corresponded with the doctrines aftd aicti- * ^ cles of the Church of England , he ^ thou gh an Arian , con 4-nued to be a meraber of the establishment . It Jiag , however ^ , been remarked ^ that he always ohoittecj Teaming the Athana $ i | iir

    Creed , and that when hewas incapable , through age and ii *? firmities , of performing the service of tfie " church ,, he lamented that he could not prevail on others to omit it wha officiated a $ his curates . These are all the particulars concerning the /* Ajithor of th ^ t Appeal , * ' &c . which I have been able to coliect .

    I remain ^ Su ^ yoar ' s , &c » Lewes , May 1 O , 1806 . S ; J % ^ P . S . —Since the above was drawn up , the writer has bfcen , informed that Mr . Hopkins was the author of a , judicious pamphlet , which was published in the year 1113 , entitled— ^~ * A Letter to the Rev . Dr . Josiah Tucker , Dean of Gloucesu ter : occasioned by his Apology for the present Church of " England , as by Law established , &c . wherein every mate-*< rial Article is examined ; and the Plan of the Petitioning € t Clergy and others is fully vipdicated , upon the Principles of € c Christianity , all Protestant Churches , and the Church o $ * Epgland in particular . By a Petitioning Clergyman ^ .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1806, page 338, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1726/page/2/