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A

COLLECTION

OF ABOVE

SIX HUNDRED HYMNS:

DESIGNED AS

A New Supplement

ΤΟ

Dr. WATTS's PSALMS & HYMNS.

TO WHICH IS ADDED

A Mufical Engraved Inder

Of near 270 Tunes.

BY THE

Rev. EDWARD WILLIAMS,

AND THE

Rev. JAMES BOTEN.

DONCASTEN

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

147.9.587.

THE

PREFACE..

FROM 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 justly 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 refpect, disposed 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

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