Excerpt from A Selection of Hymns From the Best Authors: Intended to Be an Appendix to Dr. Watts's Psalms and Hymns This felee'cion was never intended, either (11 ree'tly (11 Degrees indiree'cly, to fet afide Dr. Watts, in any Congregation upon Earth; on the Contrary, it 1shoped that he will be more ufed than ever. 'and that he may be fo, h1s Hymns and Pfalms keeping them former place, a Nu'mber of Hymns has been introduced fi'om his Lyric Poems, Ser mons, and M1fcellanie_s, into this Volume, not: only greater than has yet appeared in any one 'collee'uon of Hymns for public worfhip: but I believe, exceeding what has been printed in all of them put togethef'l thefc, 'i flatter n1yfelf, will be highly acceptable to the fcal Friends of Dr. Watts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.