OR,

HYMNS,

CHIEFLY COLLECTED

FROM

VARIOUS AUTHORS.

By WILLIAM MAURICE.

=ey fing the song of Mofes,and the fong of the Lamb.”.

Rev. xv. 3.

Eternal years my theme shall be

That

That Jefus liv'd and dy'd for me.

BOLTON,

PRINTED BY J. GARDNER.

M.DCC,XCIL.

147. g 172.

OR,

HYMNS,

CHIEFLY COLLECTED

FROM

VARIOUS AUTHORS.

By WILLIAM MAURICE.

And they fing the fong of Mofes,and the fong of the Lamb."
Rev. xv. 3.

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

BOLTON,

PRINTED BY J. GARDNER.

M.DCC,XCIL.

147.9172

TO THE

CHURCH AND CONGREGATION

OF

Independent Proteftant Diffenters,

ASSEMBLING IN

DUKE'S ALĻEY, BOLTON.

Dear Brethren and Friends,

THE God whom we ferve and adore, is worthy to have

the honours of his name held in eternal remembrance and reverence, and to be praised from the rifing 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 difplay 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 muft therefore follow, that our duty to praise him, with all the powers of foul 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 confideration