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 THEIR AUTHORS AND ORIGIN. 195

Glory to God in the height of His divinity : Glory to God in the depth of His humanity ; Glory to God in His all- sufficiency ; and into His hands I commend my spirit.&quot;

Edward Perronet wrote a number of small poems and hymns, chiefly on sacred subjects. They do not display much poetical talent, but the versification is smooth and pleasing, and the sen timent is always good. His pieces were not written for pub lication, but were published by request of his friends. They are entitled &quot; Occasional Verses, Moral and Sacred, published for the Instruction and Amusement of the candidly serious and religious.&quot; 1785.

&quot; All hail the power of Jesu s name ! &quot; No. 414.

This well-known hymn, his sole contribution to the &quot; New Congregational Hynm Book,&quot; is found in the above-mentioned book, page 22, and is headed, &quot; On the Resurrection.&quot; It is altered from the original, which has eight verses. It had pre viously appeared, without signature, in the &quot; Gospel Magazine,&quot; for 1780.

At his death, Perronet is said to have left a large sum of money to Shrubsole, who was organist at Spafields Chapel, London, from 178-4 till his death, in 1806, and who had com posed the tune, &quot; Miles Lane,&quot; for the above hymn. This tune was in former times usually sung to this hymn.

��JOHN STOCKER. 1776.

IN the years 1776 and 1777 several hymns were published in the &quot; Gospel Magazine,&quot; which are believed to be the produc tions of the above hymn-writer. All that is known of him is that he was of Honiton, Devon. Mr. Daniel Sedgwick has published the hymns given in the &quot; Gospel Magazine,&quot; along with the poems

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