‎HOPKINS, EZEKIEL.‎
‎An exposition on the Ten Commandments with other sermons.‎

‎London, Thomas Parkhurst and Nathaniel Ranew and Jonathan Robinsn, 1692. 4to. In a contemporary Cambridge-style mirror binding with five raised bands and richly gilt spine. Edges of boards gilt. Small paper-label pasted on to top of spine. Boards with scratches. Inner hinges split. First few leaves slightly browned, but otherwise internally nice and clean. (6), 344, 143 pp. + frontispiece. ‎

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‎First edition of Hopkin’s posthumously published exposition on the ten commandments and other sermons. Ezekiel Hopkins was “an English prelate and author, was born at Sandford, Devonshire, in 1633. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, and, after holding a short time the chaplaincy to the college he became minister of St. Mary Woolnoth, London, and later of St. Mary's, Exeter. He finally removed to Ireland with his father-in-law, lord Robartes (afterwards earl of Truro), and was made dean of Raphoe in 1669, and bishop of the same place in 1671. He was transferred to Londonderry in 1681, but in consequence of the Roman Catholic troubles in Ireland he returned to England in 1688, and was appointed minister of Aldermanbury, London, in 1689. He died June 22, 1690. In his doctrines he was a Calvinist. His works are remarkable for clearness, strength of thought, originality, and pureness of style” (McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia)‎