Be filled with the Spirit: Speaking to your felves
in Pfalms, and Hymns, and Spiritual Šongs,
Singing and making Melody in your Hearts
to the Lord. Ephef. 5, 18, 19.

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PREFACE.

THE following Work, confifting of Hymns and other Pieces of Poetry on various Subjects, is fubmitted to the public Eye with Diffidence.-The far greater Number of the Hymns are Productions during the early Parts of the Author's Miniftry, as the Subjects of minifterial Difcourfe, particular Providences, and the Exercifes of his own Mind directed his Thoughts to the Compofition of them. The Mention of thefe Circumftances accounts for their Exiftence-But the Author is aware it may be asked, what Occafion