sentences:  Many hymns originally published in Rippon's "Selection" are preserved in the Sacred Harp.At the age of 17, Rippon attended Bristol Baptist College in Bristol, England.After the death of John Gill, he assumed Gill's pastorate, the Baptist meeting-house in Carter Lane, Tooley Street, Southwark, from 1773 at the age of 20 until his death, a period of 63 years.