"Hopkinsian" Theology

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Taylor

Puritan Board Post-Graduate
Hello, brothers and sisters.

In my daily perusing of the internet, I have happened across Samuel Hopkins' "System of Doctrines" on CCEL (Vol. 1; Vol. 2).

After seeing that he was a student of Jonathan Edwards, I was interested in his work. I then looked to Wikipedia for information on him, and from there was directed to the "New Divinity" doctrinal system. On the Wikipedia page (see previous link), there is a list of particulars that distinguish this system from historic Calvinism. The very last tenet troubles me, however. It says, "The atonement was made for all men, the non-elect as really as the elect." Tell me, you who know Edwards, did Edwards teach or preach a so-called "unlimited atonement," if indeed this body of systematic theology by Hopkins, as CCEL states, "outlines Hopkins's (and, by extension, Edwards's) systematic theology"?

Thanks to all who reply for your time.
 
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