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Excerpt from Christian Hymns, Poems, and Spiritual Songs, Sacred to the Praise of God Our Saviour But when People are content to fee, to know, to feel the Goodne/s of our Saviour with private Thankful ne/s before him not making their own Enjoy ments and Attainments the Matter of their Song) and are, by all this, drawn to make Jefus, as he is in hiny'el as the Gofpel declares him, the Suhjec'i of their Prat/e then his prai/te/lands open to all; and all may fng the Truth towards God: zind cer tainly this comes neare/t the Song of the Blefed ahove: Worthy IS the Lamb, drc. For-'ever dwells upon their Tongues. And to fay that a Man cannot fing the Truth, except he has known it, and felt it for hiny'el is to jay, that a Man cannot fpeah the Truth, when he relates a Fac't received upon the hcyt Authority, except him/elf hath feen it: Which, by the Way, is to invalidate the Authority of the Scrip tures, to put fenfihle Demon/tration hefltre Faith, and then it is not the Evidence of unfeen Things. 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.
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Understanding the culture of living with hymnbooks offers new insight into the histories of poetry, literacy, and religious devotion. It stands barely three inches high, a small brick of a book. The pages are skewed a bit, and evidence of a small handprint remains on the worn, cheap leather covers that don’t quite close. The book bears the marks of considerable use. But why—and for whom—was it made? Christopher N. Phillips’s The Hymnal is the first study to reconstruct the practices of reading and using hymnals, which were virtually everywhere in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Isaac Watts invented a small, words-only hymnal at the dawn of the eighteenth century. For the next two hundred years, such hymnals were their owners’ constant companions at home, school, church, and in between. They were children's first books, slaves’ treasured heirlooms, and sources of devotional reading for much of the English-speaking world. Hymnals helped many people learn to memorize poetry and to read; they provided space to record family memories, pass notes in church, and carry everything from railroad tickets to holy cards to business letters. In communities as diverse as African Methodists, Reform Jews, Presbyterians, Methodists, Roman Catholics, and Unitarians, hymnals were integral to religious and literate life. An extended historical treatment of the hymn as a read text and media form, rather than a source used solely for singing, this book traces the lives people lived with hymnals, from obscure schoolchildren to Emily Dickinson. Readers will discover a wealth of connections between reading, education, poetry, and religion in Phillips’s lively accounts of hymnals and their readers.