Divine Aspirations:

A COMPILATION

OF THE MOST PURE, SPIRITUAL, AND POWERFUL

HYMNS

UPON

THE BEING, ATTRIBUTES, AND PERSONS OF GOD :
THE HIGHEST DOCTRINES OF ETERNAL GRACE:
THE LOWLIEST AND MOST EXALTED EXPERIENCE:
AND THE

MOST ARDENT DEVOTION, AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICE.

Selected from various Authors;

With many Alterations, so as to render them suitable for
public use in a truly Spiritual Congregation.

TOGETHER WITH

Many Original Hymns.

BY S. B. HASLAM,

MINISTER OF ZION CHAPEL, WATERLOO ROAD, LONDON.

*Ενεφύσησε, καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς ̇ Λάβαλε Πνεῦμα ̔́Αγιον.

John xx. 22.

Inspir'd by thee—DIVINE TRIUMPHANT BREATH,
I sing thy conquests over sin and death!

Or, in thy rich salutes such bliss I prove,
My spirit breathes enraptur'd strains of love!
But should my muse a mournful theme assume,
Of souls deep bury'd in a fleshly tomb,-
Or songs or sighs, as touching grace and sin,
Alike are echoes of THY VOICE within!

London:

PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR.
SOLD BY

B. CLARK, 22, Little Queen Street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields;
and at the VESTRY of the CHAPEL.

1824.

353.

B. CLARK, Printer, 22, Little Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.

PREFACE.

THIS Volume has not been compiled with the least intention of depreciating similar productions of others. I very highly esteem such productions, when spiritual, as blessings of no small magnitude to the church in the wilderness, whose solitary hours are often greatly cheered thereby. Nor has this work been undertaken for amusement; for I have ever seen, that if justice were done to my own intentions of presenting to the church of Christ, a collection of pure, powerful, and savoury Hymns, suitable for public singing, very great attention, and much labour, must be sacrificed.

Neither has pecuniary profit been the objectyet the "labourer is worthy of his hire;" and I can assure the reader, that the labour in getting up this work has been such, that the profit of ten times the number now published would not induce me to go through the same again-except for righteousness sake.

Nor have I made this Collection to gratify vanity as an author: nor yet as the Minister of a Congregation panting to look only upon my 66 own things" therein. Had the latter been the motive, I would at once have composed and published a volume entirely my own, which I think might have been accomplished with as little time and trouble as this Collection has cost. It may