OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE,
REV. SAMUEL HOPKINS, D. D.
Pastor of the first Congregational Church in Newport,
WRITTEN BY HIMSELF;

INTERSPERSED WITH MARGINAL NOTES
EXTRACTED FROM HIS PRIVATE DIARY:

TO WHICH IS ADDED;

A DIALOGUE,

BY THE SAME HAND,

ON THE NATURE AND EXTENT OF TRUE
CHRISTIAN SUBMISSION;

ALSO, A SERIOUS ADDRESS TO

PROFESSING CHRISTIANS:

CLOSED BY DR. HART'S SERMON. AT HIS
FUNERAL::

WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE WHOLE,
BY THE DITÓR

PUBLISHED BY

STEPHEN WEST, D. D.
Pastor of the Church in Stockbridge.

PUBLISHED ACCORDING TO ACT OF CONGRESS.

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HARTFORD:

PRINTED BY HUDSON AND GOODWIN.

LENOX LIBRAR

NEW YORK

THE knowledge of the lives and char

acters of fuch as have been eminent for piety and usefulness, can hardly fail of being instructive and edifying. We trace, in them, the footsteps of divine power and providence in preparing them for fervice in the kingdom of Chrift, and to be blessings to the world. And the examples we have, in them, of the manner and several fteps by which they attained, through the bleffing of God, to eminence in knowledge and piety, are greatly fitted to infpite candid minds with a defire to imitate them.

In these views, the memoirs of few lives have been presented to the public, which may be expected to be more entertaining and useful, than thofe of the late Rev. Dr. Samuel Hopkins. Thefe, the reader will find contained in "Sketches" written by the Doctor himself; which were compofed and arranged in a late period of his life. The former part was written before the attack of that paralytic disorder, which, finally, occafioned his death: the latter, after it. By