COLLECTION OF PSALMS AND HYMNS FOR SOCIAL AND PRIVATE WORSHIP. I WILL SING WITH THE SPIRIT, AND I WILL SING 1 Cor. xiv. 15. FOURTH EDITION. GLASGOW, PRINTED BY JAMES HEDDERWICK, FOR THE EDITORS, EXETER: SOLD BY BRASH AND REID, GLASGOW; P. HEDGELAND, EXETER, LONDON. ་་་་་་་་་་་ In the year 1801, a Collection, consisting of 290 Hymns, was compiled for the use of the Congregation assembling for religious worship in George's Meeting-House, in this City. This having for some time been out of print, the Congregation, in the spring of 1811, determined upon the formation of a new Collection, which, in addition to the most valuable Hymns in the former one, might comprise such others, from different sources, as would render the whole more serviceable. The execution of this object was intrusted to a Committee, consisting of the Ministers and four Members of the Congregation. At the commencement of their undertaking, the Editors resolved that, while they constantly kept in view the grand truth, that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is the only true God, and the only proper object of religious worship, they would studiously endeavour to avoid all expressions directly implying opinions which are commonly controverted, among those who are united by their adherence to this most important principle. It has, at the same time, been their aim, to increase the number of suitable Hymns especially referring to Christian privileges and requisitions: and they believe that this Collection will be found peculiarly calculated to strengthen and enliven, not only |