Isaac Watts Remembered
Isaac Watts Remembered

Author: David Guy Fountain

Publisher: Gospel Standard Publications

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780903556576

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The name Isaac Watts is known the world over and this book will enable readers to sing his hymns with greater appreciation.

The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts
The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts

Author: Isaac Watts

Publisher:

Published: 1782

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13:

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This book was originally published in 1782. Part One of Seven. With the life of the author. A volume of the works of Isaac Watts who is universally acknowledged as The Father of English Hymnody. He has earned the title, not because he was first to write English hymns, but because he gave impetus to hymnody and established its place in the worship of the English church. He penned the Joy to the World, the most joyous of the carols, but Watts never intended it to be a Christmas carol. Rather, it was a part of his Psalms of David Imitated, published in 1719, which contained paraphrases of many of the Psalms in New Testament language. - Publisher.

Isaac Watts
Isaac Watts

Author: Graham Beynon

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2016-10-20

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0567670147

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Isaac Watts was an important but relatively unexamined figure and this volume offers a description of his theology, specifically identifying his position on reason and passion as foundational. The book shows how Watts modified a Puritan inherence on both topics in the light of the thought of his day. In particular there is an examination of how he both took on board and reacted against aspects of Enlightenment and sentimentalist thought. Watts' position on these foundational issued of reason and passion are then shown to lie behind his more practical works to revive the church. Graham Beynon examines the motivation for Watts' work in writing hymns, and the way in which he wrote them; and discusses his preaching and prayer. In each of these practical topics Watts's position is compared to earlier Puritans to show the difference his thinking on reason and passion makes in practice. Isaac Watts is shown to have a coherent position on the foundational issues of reason and passion which drove his view of revival of religion.