To the following Authors, Translators, and owners of Copyright, I tender my sincere thanks for permission freely granted to avail myself of the hymns at their disposal.

Mrs. Alexander, Palace, Londonderry
Rev. William Lindsay Alexander, D.D., Edinburgh.
William Beattie, Esqr., M.D., London
Rev. Edward Henry Bickersteth, M.A., Hampstead.
Professor John Stuart Blackie, Edinburgh

HYMN

95.

102.

445. 473.

640.

Rev. Horatius Bonar, D.D., Edinburgh, 239. 268. 302. 385.

427. 439. 544.

Lady Bowring and the Executors of the late Sir John
44. 120. 200. 430. 515. 633.

Bowring

Rev. Robert Brown-Borthwick, Scarborough
Thomas Carlyle, Esqr., London

Rev. Edward Caswall, Oratory, Birmingham, 101. 186. 326.

331.

Rev. Thomas George Crippen, Ironbridge, Salop
Rev. John Ellerton, Hinstock, 328. 511. 591. 616. 621. 700.

Miss E. F. J. Elliott, Castledown House .
Mrs. G. Bridell Fox, Kensington, III. 117.

Rev. William Henry Furness, D.D., for MS. of 185.688.
Rev. William Gaskell, M. A., Manchester. 401. 698. 707.
Thomas Hornblower Gill, Esqr., Lee, Kent, 199. 205. 218.
222. 251. 256. 304. 317. 393. 607. 608.

493.

Samuel Greg, Esqr., Bollington
William Vernon Harcourt, Esqr., M.P., Newnham. 642.
Rev. Thomas Hincks, B.A., Taunton

H. L. L. (Thoughts for Thoughtful Hours, Hymns

from the Land of Luther).

Mrs. Howitt, Rome.

585. 587.

107.

98.

775.

113. 562.

Rev. Thomas William Jex-Blake, Cheltenham.
Rev. Professor Benjamin Hall Kennedy, D.D.,
Cambridge.

Rev. Richard Frederick Littledale, D.D., LL.D.
Messrs. Longman & Co., London (Lyra Germanica,

Vol. I.)

PREFACE.

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Mrs. Lynch, London

88. 158. 284. 315.

Richard Massie, Esqr., Pulford Hall, Wrexham, 229. 425.

357.

Rev. William Tidd Matson, Sleaford
Rev. John Samuel Bewley Monsell, D.D.,

Guildford, 350.

597.

Rev. John Henry Newman, D.D., Oratory, Birming-
ham.
150. 190. 283. 388. 414. 552. 554. 565.
Rev. Alexander Simpson Patterson, D.D., Glasgow. 557.

622.

93.

T. Stamford Raffles, Esqr., Liverpool
Charles Reed, Esq., M.P., London.
Religious Tract Society Committee, 323. 362. 370. 764. 767.
Mrs. Saxby, Clevedon

Mrs. Hanbury, Bures Vicarage, Suffolk
Mrs. Simpson, Glasgow

Messrs. Strahan & Co., London.

Joseph Stammers, Esqr., London

506. 547. 23. 234.796.

47. 314. 342. 375. 611.

265.

139.

31. 77.

The Very Rev. A. P. Stanley, D.D., Dean of West

minster

Edward C. Sterling, Esq., London

Henry Septimus Sutton, Esqr., Manchester, 180. 202. 203.

I have been favoured also with conditional permission to insert copyright hymns in the following instances; viz. on payment of a small subscription to the diocesan charities deriving revenue from his "Holy Year," by

The Right Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, D.D.,
Bishop of Lincoln

and on commercial terms of

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ORDER OF THE HYMNS.

BOOK I.

GOD, AND HIS DESCENT ON MAN.

Sect. i. In his Intrinsic Perfections:

§ 1. Immensity, Inscrutableness, Eternity,
Power.

HYMNS

1-16

§ 2. Deals with those who know him, and
those who do not

86-90

§ 2. In the Moral Government of the World 108-110

3. In the Prophetic Spirit of all Ages

§ 4. In Christ and Christianity

111-117

118-178

A. The Person and Life of Jesus Christ.
B. The History and Influence of his Re-

119-141

ligion

142-163

C. The future Kingdom of God on Earth 164-178

BOOK II.

MAN, IN HIS ASCENT TO GOD.

Sect.i. In his Inward Life:

§ 1. 'Feeling after' God.

A. Consciousness of Sin: Penitence and

HYMNS

B. Reconciliation through Self-Surrender 223-251

§ 2. Acting for God.

A. The Christian Warfare and Spirit

B. Special Graces of the Christian Mind
C. Consecration of Relative Affections

.

252-272

273-305

304-322

323-331