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AND

Spiritual Songs,

Moftly collected from

Various AUTHORS;

WITH

A few that have not been pub-
lished before.

Sing ye Praifes with Understanding.

Pfal. xlvii 7.

HALIFAX:

Printed by E. JACOB, MDCCLXXII.

[Price TWO SHILLINGS]

PODLEIAN

26·10 1904

LIBRARY

PREFACE.

A

S it will probably be expected, that the compilers and publishers of the following Hymns, fhould conform to the modern custom, in giving the reader an account of the work, it is hoped that a few hints refpecting the subject matter of them, the defign kept in view in compiling them, and the method obferved, in order to accomplish that defign, may not be wholly unacceptable.

1. As to the subject matter of them; they contain, according to our judgment, the chief branches of doctrinal, practical, and experimental religion; and may, we think, be vindicated and illuftrated by those text on which we humbly apprehend the fol. lowing truths are founded. Viz. God made man in a state of perfect purity, free from all defilement, in every power, faculty, and paffion of his foul Eccle. vii. 29. All men are fallen from this ftate of purity, and every man comes into the world, polluted and defiled in the powers of his mind; and all

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