HYMNS FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP: SELECTED FROM VARIOUS AUTHORS, AND INTENDED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO DR. WATTS's PSALMS. Sing ye praises with understanding. DAVID. WARRINGTON: PRINTED FOR THE EDITOR. MDCCLXXII, PREFACE. T HE Editor of this compilation is fenfible that the Pfalms of David are an excellent model of religious poefy, and that Dr. WATTS, in his imitation of them, has adapted them with great judgment and ability to the ufe of chriftian focieties. At the fame time he apprehends, that there are many other valuable compofitions of the fame kind, which might be introduced with great propriety and advantage into public worship. He therefore offers |