A Selection of Hymns from the Best Authors, Intended to Be an Appendix to Dr. Watts's Psalms and Hymns, by J. Rippon
This is a reproduction of a library book that was digitized by Google as part of an ongoing effort to preserve the information in books and make it universally accessible. https://books.google.com 3Z- zsz. 60001 0090G % SELECTION or HYMNS, FROM THE BEST AUTHORS, + INCLUDING A GREAT NUMBER OF ORIGINALS; INTENDED TO BE AN APPENDIX TO DR. WATTS'S PSALMS AND. THE THIRTIETH EDITION. With ahout One Hundred and Fifty Additional Hymns, and Hie Names of the Tunes adapted to most of them. LONDON : PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, 17, Dot**- Plaet, AW- Kint Bond, AND SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS. JEntnrtr at Stationery' Kali. - . ' c, The Number of the Hymn always answers to the number of the page ; thus— Hymn 33 ....... Page 33 , 433 '- 433 The Number that follows the Names of the Tunes refers to Dr. Rippon's Tune Book ; thus — Hymn 6, Bedford 91 — that is, Tune 91, in the Selection of Tunes. The figures at the foot of the pages give the exact Number of the Hymns, throughout the book, in cluding the different Parts which belong to some of them. R. Clay, Printer, Bread-Slreet-HM. PREFACE ENLARGED EDITION. The Hymns, Original and Selected, which are interspersed through this Edition, appear before the Religions Public with no higher ambition than of being, in some measure, of the humble and happy FAMIL,Y, which, through the astonishing goodness of the God of Providence and Grace, have met the fa vourable acceptance of more than TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND PERSONS, chiefly in this country ; saying nothing of the numerous Editions through which the Work has passed in America.* This circumstance, • Just after the first edition of this Preface was printed, I received a pleasi : ; letter from Philadelphia, informing me of tbe good acceptance of the Selection in America, and of the IV PREFACE.
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