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 THEIR AUTHORS AND ORIGIN.

his death in 1836, having presided over them for sixty-three years. He was one of the most popular preachers of the modern Calvinistic school. The Rev. C. H. Spurgeon was for a time one of his successors at New Park Street. Dr. Rippon died December 17th, 1836, and, along with many other departed saints, was buried in Bunhill Fields.

From 1790 till 1802 he issued the &quot; Baptist Annual Register,&quot; containing accounts of all the Baptist churches and minister^ in the kingdom.

He published a small work, entitled &quot; Divine Aspirations,&quot; the hymns in which are believed to be his own. In 1787 appeared his &quot; Selection of Hymns from the best Authors, with a great number of Originals.&quot; More than thirty editions of this work have been published. It gives the authors names as far as he knew them. He also published &quot;An Arrangement of the Psalms of I. Watts,&quot; 1805, and also, &quot; An Index of all the lines in Watts s Hymns and Psalms,&quot; 1810.

&quot; Great God, where er we pitch our tent.&quot; No. SOO.

This is in the first edition of his &quot; Collection,&quot; 1787, and is be lieved to bo by him. He does not give any name.

��TIMOTHY DWIGHT, S.T.D., LL.D.

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THIS celebrated American poet and divine, best known as the President of Yale College, was born at Northampton, in the county of Hampshire, Massachusetts. His family came from Dedham, in England, in the year 1637. Timothy Dwight s father was a wealthy merchant, a graduate of Yale College, a man of good education and fervent piety ; and his mother, to whom he owed very much, was the third daughter of the cele brated Jonathan Edwards.

As a child, young Dwight displayed remarkable ardour in the

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