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Hopkins, Ezekiel

 
9781330937563: An Exposition of the Ten Commandments (Classic Reprint)

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Ezekiel Hopkins was bom at Sanford, county of Devon, England, about tlie year 1633, where his father was many years a laborious minister. He was educated at Oxford, where he was some time chaplain of Magdalen College. From Oxford he went to London, where he was assistant to Dr. William Spurstow till the act of uniformity. After this he was preacher at St. Edmunds, Lombard-street, and subsequently was chosen minister of St. Mary A rches, in Exeter, where he was much admired. From Exeter he was transferred to the deanery of Raphoe, I reland, and from the deanery was promoted to the bishopric, which he occupied about ten -ears, v.hen he was ti ansferred to the bishopric of Derry. Here he continued about seven years, till the papists got the sword into their hands, when he fled for his life to England, and became minister of St. Mary, A ldermanbury, in London, 1689, where he died, about seven months only after his establishment there. As a preacher, Bishop Hopkins was esteemed one of the first; of the age in which he lived, being much admired and followed after in all the places where he preached. As a writer, he was eminent above most authors for the combination of clear statements of doctrinal and practical truth, with an eloquent apphcation of it to the heart and conscience. Scarcely any other writer has, within an equal compass, so ably discussed, and applied with such energy the whole range of christian truth. His works are published in four volumes, edited by the late Rev. Josiah Pratt, of London, who in his dedication of the volumos to William Wilberforce, Esq.
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