THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, OUT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT, PUT INTO SHORT RHYME FOR CHILDREN. Exodus, xx. 1. THOU shalt not have more gods but me. 2. Before no idol bow thy knee. 3. Take not the name of God in vain. 4. Nor dare the sabbath-day profane. 5. Give both thy parents honour due. 6. Take heed that you no murder do. 7. Abstain from words and deeds unclean. 8. Nor steal, though thou art poor and mean. 9. Nor make a wilful lie nor love it. 10. What is thy neighbour's dare not covet. THE SUM OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, OUT OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. Matt. xxii. 37. WITH all thy soul love God above, OUR SAVIOUR'S GOLDEN rule. Matt. vii. 12. Be thou to others kind and true, DUTY TO GOD AND YOUR NEIGHBOUR. LOVE God with all your soul and strength, Deal with another, as you'd have What you're unwilling to receive, Out of my Book of HYMNS I have here added the HOSANNA, and Glory to the FATHER, &c. to be sung at the end of any of these Songs, according to the direction of Parents or Governors. THE HOSANNA; OR, SALVATION ASCRIBED TO CHRIST. LONG METRE. HOSANNA to king David's Son! Let ev'ry nation, ev'ry age, E COMMON METRE. HOSANNA to the Prince of Grace, Hosanna to the eternal Word, With blessings on his name. SHORT METRE. HOSANNA to the Son Of David and of God, Who brought the news of pardon down, To Christ th' anointed King, GLORY TO THE FATHER, AND THE SON, &C. LONG METRE. To God the Father, God the Son, COMMON METRE. Now let the Father and the Son, And Spirit be ador'd, Where there are works to make him known, Or saints to love the Lord. SHORT METRE. GIVE to the Father praise, A SLIGHT SPECIMEN OF MORAL SONGS, Such as I wish some happy and condescending Genius would THE sense and subjects might be borrowed plentifully from the Proverbs of Solomon; from all the common appearances of nature; from all occurrences in civil life, both in city and country (which would also afford matter for other Divine Songs.) Here the language and measures should be easy, and flowing with cheerfulness, with or without the solemnities of religion, or the sacred names of God and holy things; that children might find delight and profit together. This would be one effectual way to deliver them from the temptation of loving or learning those idle, wanton, or profane songs, which give so early an ill taint to the fancy and memory, and become the seeds of future vices. |