SELECTION

OF

PSALMS AND HYMNS,

BY THE

REV. HENRY CARPENTER, A.B.

MINISTER OF 8T. MICHAEL'S CHURCE,

LIVERPOOL.

“ Teaching and admonishing one another in Psalms and Hymns
and Spiritual Songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the
Lord.”_ Col. iii. 16.

They were wont to meet together on a stated day, and to
sing among themselves a Hymn to Christ as God."— Pliny's
Letter to Trajan.

“ Sometimes at St. Paul's Cross there would be six thousand
singing together." —Burnet's History of the Reformation.

LIVERPOOL,

PRINTED BY J. DAVENPORT, LAWTON-STREET.
Sold by H. PERRIS, Church-street; J. TOLLITT, Lord-street;

and A, NEWLING, Ranelagh-street.

1838,

TO THE

CONGREGATION

OF

ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH, LIVERPOOL,

FOR

WHOSE USE IT WAS PREPARED,

THE

FOLLOWING SELECTION OF PSALMS AND HYMNS

IS

AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.