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A NEW AND REVISED EDITION

OF

DR. WATTS'S

DIVINE AND MORAL

SONGS,

BY

THE REV. JAMES G. C. FUSSELL, M.A.

LONDON:

W. H. DALTON, COCKSPUR STREET.

1852.

Sixpence, or 25 for Ten Shillings.

147.α.91.

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PREFACE.

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FEW have shewn the same power of writing hymns for children as Dr. Watts. In some respects, however, his hymns are open to serious objection. They teach the child to use expressions with regard to others, which seem to encourage censoriousness; and they put words into his mouth, both in praise and dispraise of himself, to which his own conscience cannot be supposed to bear witness; and in which his true position and character as a Christian child, if he be such, is by no means sufficiently realized.

The knowledge that this has, in some instances, prevented the use of these hymns,

Song

21 Against Evil Company 22 Against Pride in Clothes

23 Obedience to Parents 24 The Child's Complaint

25 A Morning Song

26 An Evening Song

27 A Song for the Lord's day Morning

28 A Song for the Lord's day Evening 29 Morning Hymn

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DIVINE SONGS.

SONG I.

A GENERAL SONG OF PRAISE TO GOD.

1 How glorious is our heavenly King,
Who reigns above the sky!
How shall a child presume to sing
His dreadful Majesty?

2 How great His power is, none can tell,
Nor think how large His grace;
Not men below, nor saints that dwell
On high before His face.

3 Angels that stand before the Lord,
Search not His secret will;

But they perform His heavenly word,
And sing His praises still.

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