The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins, vol. 4
Wrapping up The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins (4 Vols.) are sermons on Christ’s birth, resurrection, holiness, and the last judgment. True to Hopkins’ preaching style, his last volume of sermons is brimming with biblical truth and scholasticism.
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Top Highlights
“We shall not find our bodies so restive nor so unwieldy, as too often here we do. They now hang upon us as heavy clogs, and depress us when we should be soaring up to heaven. Then, we shall no longer need our Saviour’s gracious excuse for our infirmities: Mat. 26:41. The spirit truly is willing, but the flesh is weak. No; this flesh of ours, in that glorified estate, shall hold out in all the rapturous exercises of the soul: and, whereas now we are dull when we hear, and drowsy when we pray, and distracted when we meditate, soon tired out in any holy performances; then, when all these dregs and phlegm shall be purged from us, our bodies themselves shall be all light and fire, brisk and sparkling, ready to attend every the least motion of the soul, without reluctance and without weariness.” (Page 90)
About Ezekiel Hopkins
Ezekiel Hopkins, born in Ireland in 1634, grew up in the Church of Ireland where he was a chorister for about five years. He studied at Oxford and graduated in 1656, living in England as a preacher after that. The Act of Uniformity of 1662, a set of rulings requiring uniformity in the Church, affected Hopkins. At that point he conformed to the Church of England. Later in life he became Bishop of Londonderry. He died in 1690.