Hopkins, William, 2
Hopkins, William, 1
An English divine, was born at Evesham, Worcestershire, and educated at Trinity College, Oxford. He entered the ministry in 1675, and, after holding several minor appointments, was made vicar of Lindridge in 1686, and in 1697 master of St. Oswald’s Hospital, Worcester. He died in 1700. He published Sermons (1683, 4to) Bartram (or Rartram), on the Body and Blood of the Lord (2nd ed. 1688) Animad. on Johnson’s Answer to Jovian (London 1691, 8vo) Latin translated of A Saxon Tract on the Burial places of the Saxon Saints (in Hickes’s Septentrional Grammar, Oxford 1705). After his death, Dr. Geo. Hickes published Seventeen Sermons, with Life (London 1708, 8vo).
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Hopkins, William, 2
A Church of England clergyman, but an Arian in theology, was born at Monmouth in 1706. He entered All Souls College, Oxford, in 1724, and became vicar of Bolney, Sussex, in 1731. In 1756 he became master of the grammar school of Cuckfield, and died in 1786. His principal works are An Appeal to the Common Sense of all Christian People on the doctrine of the Trinity (London 1754,12mo) Exodus, A Correct Translation, with Notes critical and explanatory (London 1784, 4to). He published also several anonymous pamphlets against compulsory subscription to the Thirty-nine Articles. Allibone, Dict. of Authors, 1, 886; Darling, Cyclop. Bibliographica, p. 1537.