A

SELECTION

OF

PSALMS AND HYMNS,

BY THE

REV. HENRY CARPENTER, A.B.

MINISTER OF ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH,

LIVERPOOL.

"Teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and Hymns
and Spiritual Songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the
Lord."-Col. iii. 16.

"They were wont to meet together on a stated day, and to
sing among themselves a Hymn to Christ as God."-Pliny's
Letter to Trajan.

"Sometimes at St. Paul's Cross there would be six thousand
singing together.”—Burnet's History of the Reformation.

LIVERPOOL,

PRINTED BY J. DAVENPORT, LAWTON-STREET.

Sold by H. PERRIS, Church-street; J. TOLLITT, Lord-street;
and A. NEWLING, Ranelagh-street.

1838.

TO THE

CONGREGATION

OF

ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH, LIVERPOOL,

FOR

WHOSE USE IT WAS PREPARED,

THE

FOLLOWING SELECTION OF PSALMS AND HYMNS

IS

AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.

BV

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