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Book I. The Psalms of David.

Book II. Hymns on the Collects.

Book III. Various Hymns suited to the different
Seasons of the Year.

Book IV. Instructive Hymns.

APPENDIX.

Hymns designed for Family Worship.

Hymns for Children.

Hymns for Private Meditation.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR C. J. G. & F. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD,

AND WATERLOO-PLACE, PALL-MALL.

1831.

LONDON:

GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS,

ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

PREFACE.

Ir was not originally the design of the Compiler of the present volume, to add to the number of works of this kind, of which so many are already before the public, but simply to have made provision for the particular wants and circumstances of his own congregation, though for reasons which it is of no importance to state he has been induced to alter his intention.

His principal object in substituting the present Collection of Psalms and Hymns in the place of that which was previously in use among them, has been the exclusion of all those familiar, and, in some instances, positively childish appellations, as applied to the Saviour of the world, which appear to him to be forbidden by St. Paul, in the following words, "Yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now, henceforth, know we him no more." 2 Cor. v. 16. He is now

exalted, his days of humiliation are passed by, and the character under which we are taught to look for his return is, in the first instance, certainly, that of a Judge to us all. By a comparison of Dr. Watts' close rendering Psalm xlv. with the Hymn which com

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