the best in the Supplement to the New Version); and to these are added many others, from various sources, British and Anglo-American. They are all strictly congregational, and they relate to the various festivals of the Christian church, the Baptism of Infants and Adults, Confirmation, the Administration of the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper, Fast and Thanksgiving Days, Sermons in Aid of the Incorporated and other Religious Societies of the Church, Charity Sermons, Funerals, and various other occasions, for which No literal version of Hebrew Psalms is applicable to a Christian Congregation.

III. Both in the Psalms and Hymns, all fanciful and peculiar metres, requiring tunes in parts, and of difficult execution, are designedly omitted.

IV. The Psalms having been printed in their numerical order, to prevent unnecessary repetitions of the more interesting and instructive passages, which occur three or four times in the course of the ecclesiastical year, to the whole is prefixed · AN ARRANGEMENT OF THE PSALMS AND HYMNS FOR EVERY SUNDAY, FESTIVAL, ETC. OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.' In constructing this course or series, which has cost the Editor no small time and thought, he has endeavoured to reduce our Psalmody to a little of that order which obtained at the Reformation. The following is the plan pursued in this arrangement :

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1. For the MORNING-SERVICE, three portions are assigned, viz.

(1.) After the third collect, where a psalm is now generally sung, conformably to the directions of the Rubric.

(2.) At the end of the Morning Prayer and before the Communion Service. This Psalm is generally the same which was directed by the Rubric, in the first Liturgy of King Edward VI. (printed by John Oswen, at Worcester, in 1549); and which was adapted to the respective Sundays or Festivals. From its being directed to be sung or said, while the officiating minister made his entrance within the rails of the altar, it was called Introitus, or Introit. *

(3.) After the Communion Service and before the Sermon.

2. For the EVENING-SERVICE, two portions are assigned, viz. after the third Collect, and before the Sermon.

3. Where there is a THIRD SERVICE, any portions can be selected at the option of the Officiating Minister; or, some one or more of the portions for Morning or Evening may be repeated, as the

The Introits were omitted in the second edition of King Edward VI.'s Liturgy, though no reason can be assigned for such omission: for they were of great antiquity in the Christian Church, and were taken into Divine Service before the time of Jerome, who flourished towards the close of the fourth century. Wheatley's Illustration of the Book of Common Prayer, P. 205.

congregations will most probably be composed of different persons.

4. Where it is usual to sing after the sermon, either of the concluding hymns or doxologies may be selected.

In this ARRANGEMENT, for every Sunday, &c. in the year, references are placed between parentheses, pointing out those passages in the first lesson, epistle, or Gospel, or to the collect for the day, to the subjects of which the Psalms, &c. are generally applicable.

V. As much inconvenience has frequently arisen, in consequence of grave or other unsuitable tunes being appropriated to cheerful words, and vice versá, a Table has been subjoined in pp. 167–170. explaining the nature of the various metres occurring in the present publication, and referring the Psalms or Hymns to the most appropriate tunes, according to the SELECTION OF PSALM AND HYMN TUNES, expressly arranged for this Manual of Parochial Psalmody, by Mr. THOMAS HENSHAW, late Sub-Organist of His Majesty's Chapel Royal, St. James's, and now Organist of St. Pancras New Church; who, in making his Selection, while he has retained many of our finest old Church-Melodies, which have so long been familiar to the ear, and delightful to the minds, of devout worshippers, has added to them several modern and deservedly popular tunes, together with some com

positions of distinguished foreign masters in Sacred Music; the whole of which are so arranged as to unite simplicity in style with facility of execution.

Such are the plan and design of the publication now offered to the Members of the Church of England. If, with the Divine Blessing, it shall be instrumental in promoting a more serious and devout attention to Her Sacred Music, and at the same time contribute to render that part of Her service pleasing and delightful, the Editor will be abundantly rewarded for the time and labour bestowed on the compilation and arrangement of his little Manual of Parochial Psalmody.

JANUARY 1. 1829.

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NOTE [A], referred to in p. xiii. supra.

Not to protract this Preface to an undue length, the Editor will adduce a single instance from Psalm xxvi. 6. which was required for the Introit on Quinquagesima Sunday. In the ordinary editions of the New Version, this verse stands thus:

I'll wash my hands in innocence,
And bring a heart so pure;
That, when Thy altar I approach,
My welcome shall secure.

How objectionable in point of doctrine this sentiment is, will be obvious to every reader. In some of the early editions of this metrical version, the last line of this verse reads thus:- "My welcome shall be sure." But this alteration does not remove the objectionable sentiment: for it is evident, that the bringing of innocent hands and a pure heart is made the basis of the securing, or making sure, of the worshipper's welcome, which is a doctrine warranted neither by Scripture nor by the Church of England. In a learned collation of the version of Tate and Brady with the Hebrew, which was published in the Church Register of Philadelphia, Oct. 14. 1826 (vol. i. p. 322.), and which would be of great use, should any revision of that metrical translation be undertaken by authority, the following more correct version is proposed by the Rev. Dr. Turner, Professor of Biblical Theology, in the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church, at New York:

I'll wash my hands in innocence,
And purify my heart;

Then to Thine altar I'll approach,
In praise to bear a part.

This version avoids the theological error of Tate and Brady; but we have preferred, in p. 18. infra, the more poetical and not less correct rendering of the Bishop of Down and Connor from his recent English Metrical Version of the Book of Psalms.