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The biography traces the subject's life from early years and education through pastoral appointments, residences with influential families, the emergence as a sacred poet and hymn-writer, and relations with contemporaries, concluding with later return home and death. It examines his scholarship, theological and metaphysical writings, devotional temperament, habitual modesty, recurring ill health, and industrious character, and includes assessments of prose and hymnic output, portraits and engravings, and recollections from friends to situate his literary and spiritual legacy.

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Title: Isaac Watts; his life and writings, his homes and friends

Author: Edwin Paxton Hood

Release date: February 5, 2023 [eBook #69963]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: The Religious Tract Society, 1875

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PORTRAIT OF DR. WATTS.

PRESENTED BY MISS ABNEY TO DR. WILLIAMS’ LIBRARY.

Isaac Watts;

His Life and Writings,

HIS HOMES AND FRIENDS.

“Few men have left behind such purity of character, or such monuments of laborious piety. He has provided instruction for all ages, from those who are lisping their first lessons to the enlightened readers of Malebranche and Locke; he has left neither corporeal nor spiritual nature unexamined; he has taught the art of reasoning and the science of the stars.”—Dr. Johnson.

“The Independents, as represented by Dr. Watts, have a just claim to be considered the real founders of modern English hymnody.”—Lord Selborne.

LONDON:
THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY,
56, Paternoster Row; 65, St. Paul’s Churchyard;
and 164, Piccadilly.
MANCHESTER: CORPORATION STREET. BRIGHTON: WESTERN ROAD.