"Whoever can feel, the love I do tell, Would take by the heel, poor sinners from hell; As downward they're going, to bring them above; To sing of Christ's dying, a Heaven of love."
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A Hymn From My Nativity (22 August 1819), p. 18
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Dorothy Ripley
Dorothy Ripley (1767 – 1831) was a British evangelist missionary who came to America in 1801; raised as a Methodist, she eventually associated most strongly with Quakers, and regularly attended their meetings.
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