To the Reader.

1. In the Hymn Book which I published about four years since, although it was larger than I at first intended, there was no room for very many of our Hymns which were no way inferior to those contained therein. A collection of these, as I found many desired it, I have now published in a smaller volume, including a very few of those which were published in the other.

2. Several of these I omitted before, because I was afraid they would not be understood by a common congregation. But if some do not understand them, I make no doubt but that many others will, and, I trust, profit thereby. And the deeper the meaning is, the more it will profit those that do understand them.

John Wesley.

London,

October 1, 1784.