Christelijke Gezangen, voor de openbare Godsdienst-oeffeningen; ten dienste der Mennonite Gemeente te Hamburg en Altona. This hymnbook, also called Altonasche Gezangboek or Hamburgsche Liederen, printed at Amsterdam in 1802 with 666 pages without music, contained 254 hymns, including a number of Psalms, and a suffix of 19 hymns composed by P. Beets, elder of the Hamburg congregation, all in Dutch. Some of these hymns were inserted in the new hymnbook of the Haarlem congregation in 1851.

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