A COLLECTION OF HYMNS FOR THE USE OF THE ethodist Episcopal Church, PRINCIPALLY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE REV. JOHN WESLEY, M A. Late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing NEW-YORK, LISHED FOR THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, BY & Collerd, Printer. 90211928 Southern District of New-York, 88. L.S. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the sixteenth day of August, in the forty-sixth year of the Independ ence of the United States of America, N. Bangs and T. Mason, of the said District, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words and figures following, to wit: "A Collection of Hymns for the use of the Methodist Episcopal Church, principally from the collection of the Rev. John Wesley, M. A., late fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. "I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise unto my God while I have my being, Psa. 104. 33. I will Ising with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also, 1 Cor. 14. 15." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by secu ring the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the time therein mentioned." And also to an Act, entitled "An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an act for the encouragement of Learni, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other printe." GL. THOMPSON, Clerk of the Southern District of New-York. THE Hymn-Book heretofore in use among us, has been thought by many to be defective, partly on account of the mutilated state of many of the hymns, and partly because of its being divided into two books. To remedy these inconveniences, measures have been adopted to prepare a revised edition of our Hymn-Book, such a one as should exclude the defects and retain the excellencies of the one heretofore published. This revised edition we now pre sent to you. The greater part of the hymns contained in the former selection are retained in this, and 253356 |