BY JOHN H. LIVINGSTON, D. D. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all NEW-YORK: PRINTED AND SOLD BY GEORGE FORMAN, ACORNER OF PARTITION AND GREENWICH - STREETS. L. S. NISTRICT OF NEW-YORK, SS. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the eleventh day of December, in the thirtyeighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, PETER WILSON, on behalf of the Minister, Elders, and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in the city of New-York, of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words and figures following, to wit: The Psalms and Hymns, with the Catechism, Confession of Faith, and Liturgy of the Reformed Dutch Church in North America. Selected at the request of the General Synod. By John H Livingston, D. D. S. T. P. "Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another, in Psalms and Hymns and Spiritual Songs, singing with grace in your hearts unto the Lord.". ......Col. iii. 16. In. conformity to the act of the congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the encourage ment of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned," and also to an act, entitled, "An Act, supplement ary to an act, entitled, an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and ex tending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing engraving, and etching historical and other prints. 12 THERON RUDD, Clerk of the New-York District. ACTS AND PROCEEDINGS irty Of the General Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church in North America, held at Albany, June, 1812. Unit v, a of th REVISION of the Psalms and Hymns now in use in the Dutch Church, having been requesttheed and referred to the General Synod, by the Particular Synod of New-York; and it being desirable Con that our selection of Psalms and Hymns should be ute improved and enlarged : ue stor Tit Resolved, That the Synod request the Rev. Dr. Livingston to make a selection of Psalms and Hymns na agreeably to the views expressed upon this subject; and they appoint the Rev. James V. C. Romeyn, James S. Cannon, Peter Steddiford and John Schureth inan, a committee to whom Dr. Livingston will subagmit the selection; but for the greater security in a a work of such importance, it is resolved, that after it 16 is adopted by the committee, it shall be reported en to the General Synod and obtain their ultimate approbation before it be published. er rt UC Acts and Proceedings of the General Synod of the Reformed Dutch Church, held at an extraordinary session, at New-York, October, 1813: THE committee to whom Professor Livingston was requested to submit his selection of Psalms and Hymns, reported: That he had accomplished the work assigned him; that they have examined the same, and judge it to be a judicious and excellen |