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��It is his 22nd hynm in a book, entitled &quot; Infants Devoted to God, but not Baptized,&quot; 1773. There are seven verses in the original hymn, of which only two are here taken. The third verse here is by another writer. The same verse is given in the old &quot;Congregational Hymn Book&quot; (1838). The work from which this hymn is taken contains fifty- five hymns. Mr. Fellows was a Baptist, and most of his works date from Birmingham.

The following are some of his works : &quot; Grace Triumphant, a sacred poem in nine dialogues,&quot; 1770; &quot; Bromsgrove Elegy, in blank verse, on the death of the Rev. G. Whitefield,&quot; 1771 ; also, &quot; An Elegy on the death of Dr. Gill, 1771 ; &quot; Hymns on Believers Baptism,&quot; 1773 ; &quot; Eloquent and Noble Defence of the Gospel, in his three celebrated speeches, paraphrased in blank verse,&quot; 1775 ; &quot; Hymns, in a great variety of metres, on the Perfection of the Word of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ,&quot; 1776 ; &quot; The History of the Holy Bible, attempted in easy verse,&quot; 1777; also, &quot;A Fair and Impartial Enquiry into the Rise, &c., of the Church of Rome, in a series of familiar dialogues,&quot; 1779; also, &quot; A Protestant Catechism.&quot;

��JOHN RIPPON, D.I&amp;gt;. 17511836.

THE well-known author of &quot; Rippon s Selection&quot; was born at Tiverton, Devon, April 29th, 1751. He received his education for the ministry at the Baptist Academy, Bristol. In 1772, he was invited to preach to the Baptist Church assembling in Carter Lane, Tooley Street, London, and, in 1773, he became their pastor. They had been under the pastoral care of Dr. Gill for fifty-four years, till the time of his death. On the erection of the present London Bridge, in 1833, the Church found it necessary to remove to a new site, and they erected a new chapel in New Park Street. There Dr. Rippon continued to be their pastor till

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