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I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the
understanding also.
1 Cor. xiv. 15.

FOURTEENTH EDITION.

PRINTED FOR THE EDITORS, EXETER :

SOLD BY JOHN CHAPMAN, 121, NEWGATE STREET,
LONDON, AND H. H. WELSFORD, EXETER.

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Dist. of Hymus 71193.17

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

uld studiously endeavour to avoid all expressions directly implying opinions which are commonly controverted among those who are united by their

dherence 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

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