PREFACE.
THOUGH these little sacred Pieces were certainly not composed with any design of publication, yet having imperceptibly accumulated, the writer willingly presents them to the public; not only in the hope, that they may prove an acceptable though trifling acquisition in, perhaps, the only department of poetry that is but scantily supplied; but also in the serious recollection, that he who held but one talent, was not on that account exculpated, in hiding" his Lord's money."
N. B.- If any of the writer's friends should chance to recognize some of the hymns, he feels assured that, as such, they will favour his earnest wish to conceal his name.