COLLECTION

OF ABOVE

SIX HUNDRED HYMNS:

DESIGNED AS

A New Supplement

Το

Dr. WATTS's PSALMS & HYMNS.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

A Mufical Engraved Index

Of near 270 Tunes.

BY THE

Rev. EDWARD WILLIAMS,

AND THE

Rev. JAMES BOEN.

DONCASTEN

RIV

PRINTED BY D. BOYS, AND SOLD BY T. WIL
LIAMS, STATIONERS' COURT, LUDGATE HILL;
T. CHAPMAN, FLEET-STREET; F. & C.
INGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD; OGLE,
CREAT TURNSTILE, HOLBORN; & W. MILLER
1801.
OLD BOND-STREET, LONDON.

147.9.587.

General Contents.

I. The Preface.

II. A GENERAL Arrangement of Subjects.

III. WATTS's Pfalms and Hymns, arranged

according to their Subjects.

IV. A Lift of Authors of Hymns.

V. The SUPPLEMENTARY COLLECTION.

VI. Alphabetical Index of the Collection.

VII. The Mufical Index.

VIII. Alphabetical Index of the Tunes.

IX. Lift of Authors of the Tunes.

THE

PREFACE..

FROM

ROM the very face of this publication it is manifeftly no part of its defign to fuperfede any of Dr. WATTS's Pfalms and Hymns, now fo much in ufe, and fo generally and juftly admired. That excellent man, however, had more humility and piety than would fuffer him to imagine that the gift of edifying the churches by facred poetry was confined to himself; no, he was not, in this respect, difpofed "to Lord "it over God's heritage, but to be a helper of "their joy." The Spirit of the Lord is not fo ftraitened as to exclude others from the honour and privilege of promoting the fame de