I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises unto my God while I have my being. PSALM CIV. 33. FORTY-THIRD EDITION. NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY J. SOULE AND T. MASON, FOR TH Abraham Paul, Printer. 1817.1 District of Pennsylvania, to wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-se cond day of March, in the twenty-sixth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Ezekiel Cooper of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, to wit: The Methodist Pocket Hymn-Book, revised and improved: designed as a constant companion for the pious of all denominations. Collected from various "authors. I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live; "I will sing praises unto my God while I have my be ing. Psalm civ 33." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the Un ted States entitled "an Act for the encouragement Learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, a Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." D. CALDWELL, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania. A transfer of the copy-right has been regularly mad by Ezekiel Cooper. . TO THE MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE Methodist Episcopal Church. DEAR BRETHREN, YOU are presented with a choice and complete Pocket Hymn-Book, revised, containing a collection (from the Rev. John and Charles Wesley, and other authors,) of excellent and evangelical Hymns, suitable for private devotion (when you would wish to speak to yourselves in Hymns and Spiritual Songs) as well a for family, social, and public worship; and We trust you will be much assisted by the present publication in the performance of these important parts of divine service. The Tymn-Books which have been already published among us are truly excellent.—The Sect Hymns, the double collection of Hymns al Psalms, and the Redemption Hymns, display great spirituality, as well as purity of tion.-The large Congregational Hymnk is admirable indeed, but is too expenfor fe poor, who have little time and (iv) less money. The Pocket Hymn-Book, lately sent abroad in these States, is a most valuable performance for those who are deeply spiritual, but is better suited to the European Methodists, among whom all the before-mentioned books have been thoroughly circulated for many years. But all the excellencies of the former publications are, in a great measure, concentred in the present, which contains the choicest and most precious of the Hymns that are to be found in the former editions and at the same time is so portable, that you may always carry it with you without the least inconvenience. : We are the more delighted with this design, as no personal advantage is concerned, but the public good alone.-For after the necessary expenses of publication are discharged, e shall make it a noble charity, by applying the `profits arising therefrom to religious and charitable purposes. No motive of a sinister nature has therefore influenced us in any degree to publish this excellent compilation. It has received the approbation of the Conferences, and contains many valuable Hymns, which some of the former editions did not. As the profits of the former editions have been scrupulously applied as above, so the same appropriation of |