HYMNS

FOR

PRIVATE DEVOTION;

SELECTED

AND

ORIGINAL.

LONDON:

J. HATCHARD AND SON, 187, PICCADILLY.

1827.

LONDON:

IBOTSON AND PALMER, PRINTERS, SAVOY STREET, STRAND.

PREFACE.

THIS selection of Hymns would not have been added to those already published, had not the Original Compositions, kindly contributed by several friends of the Editor, been thought too valuable to be restricted to a private circle. In some of the Hymns, already well known, a few slight alterations have been ventured upon, which, it is hoped, will be deemed improvements; in most cases, they have been made with the advice and assistance of the same friends whose poetry has so greatly enriched the volume.

July, 1827.