Charles Wes­ley, Short Hymns on Se­lect Pass­ag­es of Ho­ly Script­ure, 1762. The text is based on Mat­thew Hen­ry’s com­ment­a­ry on Le­vit­i­cus:

We have ev­ery one of us a charge to keep, an eter­nal God to glor­i­fy, an im­mor­tal soul to pro­vide for, need­ful du­ty to be done, our gen­er­a­tion to serve; and it must be our dai­ly care to keep this charge, for it is the charge of the Lord our Master, who will short­ly call us ac­count about it, and it is our ut­most per­il if we ne­glect it. Keep it that ye die not; it is death, eternal death, to be­tray the trust that we are charged with; by the con­sid­er­a­tion of this we must be kept in awe.

Boyl­ston, Low­ell Ma­son, The Choir, or Un­ion Col­lect­ion of Church Mu­sic, 1832 (MIDI, NWC, PDF).

• Galway, Ed­ward Mill­er, 1790 (MIDI, NWC, PDF)
• Kentucky, Jer­e­mi­ah In­galls (1764-1828) (MIDI, NWC, PDF)