FOUNDED ON VARIOUS TEXTS IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES. By the late Reverend Published from the AUTHOR's Manufcript. A NEW EDITION, Corrected. efteem Nepos for his Faith and Diligence, his Com- Eufeb. Eccl. Hift. L. vii. C. 4. LONDON: Printed in the Year 1776. THE PRE F A C E.. THE Author of the following HYMNS, well known to the World by many excellent and useful Writings, was much folicited by his Friends to print them in his Life-time, from a Hope that they might be ferviceable to the Interest of Religion, by affifting the Devotion of Chriftians in their focial and fecret Worship; and, had GOD continued his Life till his FAMILY EXPOSITOR on the Epiftles had been published, it is probable he would have complied with their Request: But this and many other pious and benevolent Purposes were broken off by bis much-lamented Death. During the last Hour I Spent A 2 with with him, a few Weeks before that mournful Event, be honoured me with some particular Directions about tranfcribing and publishing them. I have at length, through the good Hand of my GOD upon me, finished them, and prefent them to the World. with a chearful Hope, that they will promote and diffufe a Spirit of Devotion, and, together with other Affiftances buman and divine, prepare many to join with the devout Author in the nobler and everlasting Anthems of Heaven. Thefe Hymns being compofed to be jung, after the Author had been preaching on the Texts prefixed to them, it was his Defign, that they should bring over again the leading Thoughts in the Sermon, and naturally exprefs and warmly enforce thofe devout Sentiments, which he hoped were then rifing in the Minds of his Hearers, and help to fix them on the Memory and Heart: Accordingly the attentive Reader will obferve, that most of them illuftrate fuch Sentiments, as a fkilful Preacher would principally infift upon, |