OR,

HYMNS,

CHIEFLY COLLECTED

FROM

VARIOUS AUTHORS.

By WILLIAM MAURICE.

Bey fing the song of Mofes, and the song of the Lamber?

Rev. xv. 3.

Eternal years my theme shall be
That Jesus liv'd and dy'd for me.

BOLTON,

PRINTED BY J. GARDNER.

M.DCC, XCII

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OR,

HYMNS,

CHIEFLY COLLECTED

FROM

VARIOUS AUTHORS.

By WILLIAM MAURICE.

+6 And they fing the song of Moses and the fong of the Lamb."

TO THE

CHURCH AND CONGREGATION

OF

Independent Protestant Dissenters,

ASSEMBLING IN

DUKE'S ALLEY, BOLTON.

Dear Brethren and Friends, The God whom we serve and adore, is worthy to have the honours of his name held in eternal remembrance and reverence, and to be praised from the rising of the fun to the going down thereof. He is great and condescending ; juft and merciful; tremendous and lovely ; righteous and good; glorious in holiness; fearful in his praises; and wonderful in all his works and ways. Every display of his glorious nature to his creatures, lays them under an obligation to praise and adore him who liveth for ever and ever, and in whom they live, move, and have their being : it must therefore follow, that our duty to praise him, with all the powers of soul and body, is coeval with the very first dawnings of the knowledge of his greatness and worthiness; and, if there was no other reason why we should do it, that alone consideration