Twenty-One Sermons

Name: Twenty-One Sermons
Author: Samuel Hopkins

Samuel Hopkins (1721–1803) was an American Congregational theologian, a disciple of Jonathan Edwards whose system — called Hopkinsianism or the New Divinity — shaped New England theology for a generation. He pastored at Great Barrington and then, from 1770, at Newport, Rhode Island, where he became one of the first American ministers to denounce slavery in print. Our library holds his two-volume System of Doctrines and his collected sermons.

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First published: 1803
Category: Sermons & Preaching
Length: 140k words · about 9 hours
Chapters: 22

About this book

A volume of twenty-one sermons by Samuel Hopkins, the New England pastor and theologian who learned his theology under Jonathan Edwards. Published in 1803, these sermons present the doctrines of the New England tradition with Hopkins's characteristic thoroughness and moral seriousness. A representative sample of American preaching from the years of the early republic.

Sermon I. The Reason of the Hope of a Christian, which he ought always to give to him who asketh it of him.
Sermon II. The same Subject continued.
Sermon III. On Christian Friendship, as it subsists between Christ and Believers, and between Believers themselves. · WRITTEN IN THE YEAR. I767. 🔒
Sermon III. On Christian Friendship, as it subsists between Christ and Believers, and between Believers themselves. · Sermon IV. 🔒
Sermon V. The friendship of Christians between each other. 🔒
Sermon VI. The Friendship between Jesus Christ and Believers. 🔒
Sermon VII. On Christian Friendship. 🔒
Sermon VIII. On Christian Friendship. 🔒
How Christians work out their own Salvation. 🔒
Sermon X. The same Subject continued. 🔒
Sermon XI. What is meant by Fear and Trembling. 🔒
Sermon XII. Good working in Men to will and to do. 🔒
Sermon XIII. An Improvement of the Subject. 🔒
Sermon XIV. Improvement continued. 🔒
Sermon XV. The Law of Works and the Law of Faith. 🔒
Sermon XVI. An Improvement of the Subject. 🔒
Sermon XVII. The Decrees of God, the Foundation of Piety. 🔒
Sermon XVIII. The Decrees of God, the Foundation of Piety. 🔒
Sermon XIX. The same Subject continued. 🔒
Sermon XX. The sins of men are so under the direction and controul of God, as to glorify him, and subserve the good of his kingdom, in every instance of it which he suffers to take place. 🔒
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Sermon XXII. The Author's Farewell to the World. 🔒