Duty to GoD and our NEIGHBOUR.

LOVE God with all your foul and ftrength,

With all your heart and mind:

And love your neighbour as yourself,
Be faithful, juft, and kind.

Deal with another, as you'd have

Another deal with you;

What you're unwilling to receive,
Be fure you never do.

Out of my Book of HYMNS I have here added the Hofanna, and Glory to the Father, &c. to be fung at the End of any of thefe Songs, according to the Direction of Parents or Go

vernors.

The Hofanna; or Salvation afcribed to Chrift..

LONG METRE.

HOSANNA to king David's Son,

Who reigns on a fuperior throne;

We blefs the prince of heavenly birth,
Who brings falvation down on earth.

Let every nation, every age,
In this delightful work engage;
Old men and babes in Sion fing
The grewing glories of her king.

COMMON METRE.

HOSANNA to the Prince of Grace;

Sion, behold thy King!

Proclaim the Son of David's race,
And teach the babes to fing.

Hofanna to th' eternal word,

Who from the Father came;

Afcribe falvation to the Lord,
With bleffings on his name.

SHORT METRE.

HOSANNA to the Son

Of David and of God,

Who brought the news of pardon down,
And bought it with his blood.

To Chrift, th' anointed King,
Be endless bleffings given;
Let the whole earth his glory fing,
Who made our peace with heaven.

GLORY

GLORY to the FATHER and the Son, &c.

To

LONG METR E.

God the Father, God the Son,
And God the Spirit, Three in One;

Be honour, praise and glory given,
By all on earth, and all in heaven.

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COMMON METRE.

OW let the Father and the Son,
And Spirit, be ador'd,

Where there are works to make him known,
Or faints to love the Lord.

SHORT METR E.

GIVE to the Father praise,

Give glory to the Son;

And to the Spirit of his grace;
Be equal honour done.

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SPECIMEN

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MORAL SONGS,

Such as I wish fome happy and condescending genius would undertake for the ufe of children, and perform much better.

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HE sense and subjects might be borrowed plentifully from the Proverbs of Solomon, from all the common appearances of nature, from all the occurrences of civil life, both in city and country (which would also afford matter for other divine songs). Here the language and measures should be easy, and flowing with chearfulness, with or without the folemnities of religion, or the facred names of God and holy things; that children might find delight and profit together.

This would be one effe&tual way to deliver them 'from those idle, wanton, or profane fongs, which give fo early an ill taint to the fancy and memory; and become the feeds of future vices.

I. The SLUGGAR D.

IS the voice of the fluggard; I heard him com

"TIS

plain,

"You have wak'd me too foon, I must flumber again."

As the door on its hinges, fo he on his bed,

Turns his fides and his fhoulders and his heavy head.

"A little more fleep, and a little more flumber;" Thus he waftes half his days, and his hours without number;

And when he gets up, he fits folding his hands,
Or walks about fauntering, or trifling he ftands.

I pafs'd by his garden, and faw the wild brier,
The thorn and the thiftle grow broader and higher;
The cloaths that hang on him are turning to rags:
And his money ftill waftes till he starves or he begs.

I made him a vifit, ftill hoping to find

He had took better care for improving his mind:
He told me his dreams, talk'd of eating and drinking;
But he fcarce reads his bible and never loves thinking.

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Said I then to my heart, "Here's a leffon for me:
That man's but a picture of what I might be
But thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding,
Who taught me betimes to love working and reading.

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