[97]Julian, Article: ‘Congregational Hymnody.’
[98]Preface to Psalms. Dr. Martineau justified his own editing of Watts’s hymns by this sentence. ‘Every adaptation of a Jewish psalm to Christian worship affords an instance of theological adaptation; and the same rule which is applied to Dr. Watts’s hymns when their Trinitarianism is expelled, Watts himself has systematically applied to David’s writings, in reforming and spiritualizing their Judaism.’—Preface to Hymns for the Christian Church and Home.
[99]Lives of the Poets.
[100]One of Wesley’s Communion hymns begins—
Come to the supper, come,
Sinners, there still is room.
[101]The hymn has seven verses. It is given with slight alterations, and the omission of one verse in Barrett’s Congregational Church Hymnal, 497.
[102]Henry Ward Beecher included this song in his Plymouth Collection.
[103]Julian, p. 831.
[104]The Training of the Twelve, p. 24.