and Evening Hymns," at the close of the volume, and in a few other instances also, will be found some, chiefly applicable to personal and retired devotionchs son In very few cases has any alteration been madel in the language of the Hymns selected, and in these, only under the influence of considerations which appeared to justify, if not even to require this liberty. In very numerous instances, howay ever, entire verses have been omitted,' either because the Hymns are sufficiently long and sufficiently complete without them, or because they exhibit some shade of sentiment which to the Compiler appears unauthorized by the word of God. to the blessing of the adorable Head of the Church, this volume is now commended. May itzi by his gracious and condescending favour, be conducive to the excitement and to the sexo pression of that grateful praise, by which a tribute of acceptable adoration shall be rendered to the Eather, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. bunoi insisiasa 10 ! TEA) 15 Davies Evans... i THE NAMES OF THE AUTHORS, AND THE NUMBER OF THEIR HYMNS. A ? Sot gay WATTS, (including a few 03.92 498 from his Lyrics & Mis Beck 9.99 ET cellanous Hymns): ...7 313 G. Burder Charles Wesley 38. Coombes De beste Doddridge 37 | Cotton 1..10..7:66...7. Newton is Kelly Cowper 9 Enfield '1 Toplady Cennick Steele... Montgomery 6 | Heber... Josiah Conder... 5 Heginbothom Hart 4 Hervey J. Edmeston Gibbons 3 Luther Grigg 3 Madan Ryland Scott John Wesley 3 Stennett.is sel Beddome 2 Stocker S. M. Burder. 2 H. K. White W. B. Collyer.. 2 Wilks. Fawcett 2.P. Williams 1 Hammond 2 Anonymous, "from WesHaweis ..... ley's Collection 39 Addison 1 Anonymous, from various Batty other Collections...... 38 498 600 3 Kenn 3 Mason 3 Pope ..... OF THE HYMNS. 1_161 HYMN Praise to God for his Perfections Praise to God for his Providence Praise to the Lord Jesus Christ The Life and Example of Christ. 118_122 The Sufferings and Death of Christ 123–138 The Ascension and Dominion of Christ 149– The Characters and Offices of Christ 162-183 Its Universal Diffusion 2542810 The Lord's Day and its Ordinances Baptism and Parental Desires 3343441 ea Faith. 6.1 353356 nila 357_366 HYMN Tranquillity and Security in Christ.... 384_389 Delight in the Service of God....... 420-428 Christian Courage and Activity 430—435 Final Persévérance 478_481 The Brevity and Uncertainty of Life 482_493 Heaven anticipated and desired After Sermons for Sunday Schools On Opening a Place of Worship... 570-571 At the Ordination or Settlement of a Minister 572-575 HYMNS. GENERAL ASCRIPTIONS OF PRAISÉ. 1. (PSALM 146.) L. M. 4 PRAISE ye the Lord, my heart shall join In work so pleasant, so divine, Now while the flesh is my abode, And when my soul ascends to God. While immortality endures ; While life, and thought, and being last. 3 Why should I make a man my trust ? culty 1,7 4 Happy the man whose hopes rely On Israel's God; he made the sky, And earth and seas with all their train, He saves the oppress'd, he feeds the poor; B |
