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John Rippon : A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors Including a Great Number of Originals: Intended to be an Appendix to Dr. Watt's Psalms and Hymns

?on the Thursday evening following I went to my fathers to the meeting with an intention to stay out all night with a person that was not of very good Character so I went to the meeting to pass away the time untill [sic] it Should be convenient to put my design into practice but after the sermon the minister gave out the 355 hymn in Rippon's Selection and when he Came to the 6th verse ? I Can but Perish if I go. I am Resol'd to try for if I stay away I know. I must for ever die. these words painfully arrested me and wrought so upon my mind that instead of prosecuting my design I went home'.

Century: 1700-1799 / 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Joseph Mayett      Print: Book

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