A Selection Of Hymns From The Best Authors The Sixteenth An Enlarged Edition Etc PDF Download

Excerpt from A Selection of Hymns, From the Best Authors; Including a Great Number of Originals: Intended to Be an Appendix to Dr. Watts's Psalms and Hymns The first edition 'oi' the selection, consisted oi' five hundred and eighty-eight hymns, three hundred of which had never appeared in any collection for public worship before. About one hundred and fifty of them. As the preface announced. Were mgmals. Some of these on different subjects, I had the pleasure of composing; others were the productions of several eminent persons - the flower of that denomination of Christians to which it is my honour tobelong. S. In the preface to the former editions. I expressed my fear. Notwithstanding this addition of above five hundred hymns to Dr. Watts's hymns and psalms, that all of them together would not furnish a sufficient variety for every subject of consideration which might arise in the course of the Chris tian ministry. Time. General use of the Hymns. And a frs quent recurrence to the index of their, subjects, have since united to prove that these apprehensions were not altogether unfounded or problematical; and that theie was reason for intiinating. That too great a variety of evangelical hymns, for public worship, is a thing scarcely conceivable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.