MISCELLANEOUS HYMNS, BY THE LATE REV. ISAAC WATTS, D. D. SELECTED FROM HIS LYRIC POEMS, HIS SERMONS, HIS MISCELLANEOUS THOUGHTS, AND HIS REMNANTS OF TIME; BY THE EDITOR OF THIS OCTAVO EDITION: AND DESIGNED AS A SUPPLEMENT, BOTH IN PUBLIC AND FAMILY WORSHIP, TO THE CELEBRATED PSALM AND HYMN BOOK OF THAT PIOUS AUTHOR. ADVERTISEMENT. THE following collection of Devotional Poems contains one hundred Hymns, selected from Dr. Watts's Lyric Poems, his Sermons, his Miscellaneous Thoughts, and his Remnants of Time; and they appear to the Editor to embrace all his Miscellaneous Poems which are peculiarly adapted to public Worship. Many of the longer ones may, with great propriety, be abridged; and several others divided so as to make two, and in some instances more than two Hymns, well adapted to different subjects under consideration. In the fourth Hymn, for instance, the first six verses are suited to a Sermon on the Power and Dominion of God, the last six to one respecting his Decrees. The addition of nearly one sixth in number of Hymns, and almost one fifth in the number of the Verses, to the general Psalm Book, will, it is hoped, be found useful both to private Christians and public Worshippers of Almighty God. |