PORTIONS OF PSALMS FROM THE NEW VERSIONS, HYMNS, AND ANTHEMS,, SUNG At the Parish Church, IN SHEFFIELD. SECOND EDITION. Sheffield PRINTED BY AND FOR WM. TODD, AT THE MERCURY OFFICE, HEAD OF THE MARKET PLACE. 1816.. TO THE SEAT-HOLDERS IN THE Parish Church of Sheffield. FRIENDS AND FELLOW CHRISTIANS, FROM the circumstance of that Edition of Psalms and Hymns, which was printed for your use in 1807, being exhausted, a new Edition of them is rendered necessary. Having witnessed the incovenience which has arisen to you, when assembled in the Church, from an Analysis of the subject of each Psalm not being given in the former Edition, it has been my endeavour to remedy this inconvenience. In private use, however, when a person, under different_circumstances, might at once wish to find a Psalm or Hymn adapted to those circumstances, this inconvenience, I am aware, must of necessity be greater. I hope, therefore, that the Analysis of the subject of each Psalm, which I have endeavoured to give in this Edition, will prove useful to you, both when assembled in "the great Congregation," or when performing your devotional exercises alone, or in concert with your families. In the formation of this Analysis recourse has been had to the Commentary on the Psalms written by the late pious and learned Bishop HORNE; and to the Version of MERRICK'S Psalms made by the Rev. Dr. TATTERSHALL. The Analysis is the only alteration made in the Psalms of the Edition of 1807. To the number of Hymns considerable addition has been made, as the want of a greater variety of Occasional Hymns has long been the subject of complaint. In selecting these additional Occasional Hymns, it has been my study to chuse those which united in them Piety and Poetry, combined with the Doctrines maintained by our Church. How far success has been obtained in this attempt at selection, must be left to individual opinion; I must, however, frankly acknowledge that I had proposed to myself a higher standard than, with all my efforts, I have been able to attain, |