FOR Joomla G SOCIAL WORSHIP. SELECTED AND ORIGINAL. DESIGNED AS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE PSALMS AND HYMNS OF Dr. Watts. BY ASAHEL NETTLETON. And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Isaiah. STEREOTYPE EDITION. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED AND SOLD BY E. SANDS, AND MAHLON DAY, NO. 374 PEARL STREET. [Entered according to an Act of Congress, A D. 1838 by the REV. ASAHEL NETTLETON, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.] AMERICAN PREFACE. WITH great satisfaction and pleasure have I often heard the friends of the Redeemer express their unqualified attachment to the sacred poetry of Dr. Watts. Most cordially do I unite with them in the hope, that no Selection of Hymns which has ever yet appeared may be suffered to take the place of his inimitable productions. Deficiencies, however, he unquestionably has. Numerous have been the attempts to supply them; but, hitherto, the judicious have been constrained to regret, that these attempts have succeeded only in part. Whether the book here published will add something to that supply, is submitted to the decision of the religious community. The compiler does not overlook the valuable labors of those who have preceded him in this department; while he concurs in the opinion, very generally adopted by his brethren in the ministry, that the various benevolent operations, and especially the prevalence of revivals, which are so characteristic of the present day, demand a New Selection of Hymns. In the year 1820, the General Association of Connecticut appointed a committee to devise measures |