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life. His &quot; Sermons on Important Subjects&quot; had reached a fifth edition in 1804. And so late as 1851, his collected ser mons, in three volumes, were published, with a life by the Rev. Albert Barnes. In 1757, he published &quot;Letters from S. D., showing the state of religion in Virginia, &c.&quot; There was a good deal of poetry in President Davies prose, and he was also a poet. Three of his poems are given at the end of his collected sermons. One is on the birth of his third son. He also wrote some hymns.

There is one hymn by him in the &quot; New Congregational Hymn Book,&quot;

&quot; Great God of wonders, all thy ways,&quot; No. 295,

a hymn admirable for its unity, comprehensiveness, simplicity, and force. This hymn is given in Dr. Thomas Gibbons earlier collection, &quot; Hymns adapted to Divine Worship,&quot; in two books, 1769. Dr. Gibbons says in the preface, that he took it and some others from President Davies MSS., entrusted to him. The hymn is given in the &quot; New Congregational Hymn Book,&quot; with the omission of the third verse, and with several alterations. It is the fifty-ninth in Dr. Gibbons Collection, and is headed, &quot; The Glories of God in pardoning Sinners.&quot; (Micah vii. 18.)

��ANDREW KIPPIS, D.D., F.R.S.

17251795.

NOT the least eminent amongst the pupils of Dr. Doddridge was Dr. Andrew Kippis, one of the most talented and laborious authors and ministers of the last century. He was born at Nottingham, where his father was a silk-hosier, March 28, 1725 ; his parents could trace their descent from the heroic men who had patiently suffered ejectment on the passing of the Act of Uniformity in 1662. Dr. Kippis was educated in the Academy at Northampton,

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