Excerpt from Verses Of the Hymns contained in this little volume, the greater part are translations from the Latin - being the old Hymns of the Use of Salisbury. See the Hymnals seeundum usum insignis ae pree etarce Eeelesiae Sarisburiensis. Littlemore, 1850. (sb.) These an cient songs cannot but have a great interest for English Church men. They are the songs of our own beloved Church during the middle ages; of which not a few may have been introduced into this country by S. Augustine, the Apostle of the anglo-saxons, twelve centuries and a half ago; being even then hymns of some antiquity, Thus their age entitles them to our respect; an age, which reaches, if not above all medieval corruptions - yet at least, above some of the most extravagant developments of doctrinal error. And not only their venerable age, but also their strictly Evangelical character commends them to us. Of the large ma jority it may be said, that they run most commonly in the very words and phrases of Scripture, and are constantly full of its spirit. Such as belong to a later date, and teach doctrines which the Church of England has rejected, are exceptions, and these I have not thought of rendering. 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.