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PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION.
It is now twenty-eight years since the first
edition of these Poems was laid before the
public. Since that time, three other editions
have been exhausted ; and as the Author still
finds that there is a demand for them, (although
six thousand copies have been already circu-
lated,) he hopes that, in some measure, they
have been found beneficial to the spiritual
interests of many. Under this impression, he
has great pleasure in sending forth this, the
fifth edition, carefully revised, and consider-
ably enlarged. If, by the Divine blessing, they
edify, direct, and comfort those who take the
statutes of the Lord to be their song in the
house of their pilgrimage ; and if, by the same
blessing, they be the means of turning sinners
from the error of their ways, awaken in fif the