But most of our people were supplied already with the other Hymns. Two years ago I published a Pocket Hymn-book according to my promise. But before I could do this, a Bookseller stepped in, and without my consent or knowledge, extracted such a Hymn-book chiefly from our works, aud spread several editions of it throughout the kingdom. This I promised to do, as soon as I had finished some other business, which was then on my hands. ”A few years ago I was desired by many of our preachers to prepare and publish a small Pocket Hymn-book, to be used in common in our Societies. John Wesley, in the Preface to his Pocket Hymn-book for the Use of Christians of All Denominations, dated Nov. A second form of the hymn appeared about 1780, under the following circumstances. It has also been translated into several languages, including Latin, by Bingham, in his Hymnologia Christiana Latina, 1871:-" Magna Creatoris cunctis alturn aethera subter."Ģ. In this its original form this hymn is in extensive use in all English-speaking countries. Thy Praise shall sound from Shore to Shore This paraphrase appeared in his Psalms of David, 1719, as follows:.
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