The Reverend Samuel Hopkins(1721-1803) was an American clergyman. He invented a religious system called Hopkinsism or Hopkinsianism. He died December 20, 1803. Printed dictionaries describe Hopkinsism or Hopkinsianism.
Samuel W. Hopkins and Nancy Rolin Brough were the parents of William Thaddeus Hopkins, husband of my great-grandfather's sister Sarah Orillia Tillotson.
Hopkins was a true and consistent christian, a faithful and true wife and mother, who has the love and respect of all who knew her.
Hopkins was manifest to the last at the time of his death at ten o'clock, as the family stood around the bed he said "I am going now" and expressed several wishes as to his funeral arrangements and then passed out of this life without a struggle.
SamuelHopkins was born in a wealthy family in Waterbury, Connecticut, the eldest of his father's sons.
Hopkins avoided teaching a doctrine of imputation of Adam's sin to humanity, because for him it was enough to know that all men sin and this is revealed in their actions; or the "sin is in the sinning".
Hopkins explained that if nations and individuals were truly Christian, then they would abolish such a practice but as it were, they are really the "emissaries of Satan" in disguise, fooling themselves that they are bringing the slaves to a Christian land and teaching them the gospel.
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