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PG-P.729.050
13-17 Nov 1729:22 (50)
Lately re-printed and sold at the New Printing-Office near
the Market.
The Psalms of David, imitated in the Language of the New-
Testament, and apply'd to the Christian State and Worship.
By I. Watts, V.D.M. The seventh edition.
N.B. This work has met with such a general good reception
and esteem among the Protestant dissenters in Great Britain,
&c. whether Presbyterians, Independents, or Baptists, that
six large impressions before this have been sold off in a
very short time.
The chief design of this excellent performance (as the
author acquaints us in his advertisement to the reader) is
"to improve psalmody or religious singing, and to encourage
and assist the frequent practice of it in publick assemblies
and private families with more honour and delight; yet the
reading of it may also entertain the parlour and the closet
with devout pleasure and holy meditations. Therefore he
would request his readers, at proper seasons, to peruse it
thro'; and among 340 sacred hymns they may find out several
that suit their own case and temper, or the circumstances of
their families or friends; they may teach their children
such as are proper for their age, and by treasuring them in
their memory they may be furnish'd for pious retirement, or
may entertain their friends with holy melody."
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