Singers and Songs

OF

The Church.

OUR HYMNS, THEIR AUTHORS and origin,' 'our dispenSATION,' ETC.

SECOND EDITION.

The fineness, which a Hymn or Psalm affords,

Is, when the soul unto the lines accords.'

GEORGE HErbert.

'Deinde qui cantat, vacuus est, et diversarum cogitationum curas relegat,
culpas religat, sequestrat avaritiam, et non solum corporis voce, sed etiam
mentis vivacitate se mulcet.'
AMBROSE.

LONDON:

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1869.