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for all His blessings, yea, ^for all blessings, none coming from any other source, praise, by every creature, specifically invoked, here below, and in heaven above ; praise to Him in each of the characters wherein He has revealed Himself in His Word, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Probably there is no other verse in existence that is so often sung by Christians of all denominations. With this glad utterance of praise to the Triune Jehovah, they have, times without number, brought to a conclusion their most solemn and most delightful assemblies.

��PATRICK.

&quot; God, we praise Thee, and confess.&quot; No. 253.

THIS hymn has been erroneously attributed in the &quot;New Con gregational &quot; to Dr. John Patrick, author of the &quot;Century of Select Psalms, 1G79.&quot; It resembles his rendering, but is not the same. It is the first portion of the Prayer Book version of the &quot; Te Deum Laudamus,&quot; whose date and author are as yet undetermined, but to which a very high antiquity is by common consent assigned.

JEANNE BOUVIEK DE LA MOTTE GUYON.

16481717.

THIS eminent quietist poetess was born at Montargis, and educated at two of the convents of her native city. At the early age of sixteen she entered upon an uncongenial marriage with M. Guyon, a man of wealth, twenty-two years her senior. Twelve years after, her husband died, leaving her with a family. Previous to this time she had met with severe trials. Her mother-in-law treated her with uukindness ; her favourite son was snatched away at the engaging age of four ; and she herself was prostrated by illness at a time when the state of her husband s

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