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

• Abney House, old, 223
• Sir Thomas, 76
• Academy at Gloucester, the, 25
• at Stoke Newington, 15
• Acrostic, an, 7
• Anecdotes—Blind woman and Watts’ hymns, the, 134;
• Bradbury and Burnet, 191;
• Bradbury and Dr. Watts, 193;
• death of an aged minister, 113;
• Derby (Earl) and the blind woman, 134;
• dying Webster, the, 134;
• giant and pigmy, 248;
• of Luther, 97;
• sceptic defeated, the, 146;
• stonemason’s dream, the, 5;
• text for Queen Anne, a, 202;
• “That the great Dr. Watts?” 247;
• Watts’ (W)hims, 193;
• “What think you of death?” 269;
• Whitefield and Watts, 261
• Anne’s reign, close of Queen, 209
• Arianism of Watts’ day, the, 311
• Artificial poetry, 58
• Atonement, the poet of the, 108
• Atterbury, Bishop, 210
• Augustine, St., on the songs of the Church, 97
• Barbauld, Mrs., quo., 186
• Barrington, Lord, 144
• letter to Watts, 147
• Baxter on sacred hymns, 100
• Bendish, Mrs., 136
• Birth and childhood of Watts, 1
• Blair’s “Grave,” 215
• Bookmen, the age of great, 339
• Bradbury, Thomas, 189, 190;
• and Bishop Burnet, 191;
• and Dr. Watts, 192;
• characteristics, 202;
• Defoe’s reproof to, 189;
• political preacher, 190
• Bunhill Fields, its associations, 265
• Bunting, W. M., quo., 223
• Carey’s tombstone, inscription, 134
• Carter, Mrs. Elizabeth, 180
• Caryl’s “Book of Job,” 46
• Catechism, Watts’, 141
• Cedar tree and the scythe, the, 37
• Character of Watts, 248
• Chauncy, Dr. Isaac, 48
• Christ, Psalms restored to, 129
• Classical sentiment, translation, 71
• Coincidents, table of (see Appendix)
• Collins, Antony, and Lord Barrington, 146
• Comet, lines on a, 12
• Conder, Josiah, quo., 100
• Controversy between Watts and Bradbury, 194-201
• Countess of Hertford and Mrs. Rowe, 172;
• and the Rise and Progress of Religion, 167
• Coward, William, 142
• Critics, hostile, 111
• Cromwell, Richard, 80
• Crucial events, 14
• Daughters, a group of, 36
• Death, 259
• Defoe in the pillory, 208;
• quoted, 15
• Derby, Earl, and the blind woman, 134
• Devotion the attribute of Watts’ hymns, 113
• Dissenters, Shortest way with, 78
• Doddridge, Dr. Philip, 151
• Dying, 262
• Elegy, a lovely, 36
• England in the times of the last Stuarts, 12
• England’s history, happiest period of, 206
• English hymnology, 99
• Epigram, an, 174, 255
• Erskine, Ralph, and Watts’ hymns, 122
• Expression, fervour of, 65
• Faith, expressions of personal, 117
• Family, in the Hartopp, 32
• last of the Hartopp, 38
• Father, imprisonment of Watts’, 1
• Fleetwood, General, 35
• Foster, John, quo., 215
• Friend, letter to an afflicted, 53
• Friends, Watts’, 136
• Fuller, Thomas, on death, 260
• Gale, Theophilus, 16
• Gardiner, Colonel, 166
• Gibbons, Dr., quo., 53, 54, 89, 256, 260, 261
• Girdlers’ Hall church, 22
• Gloucester academy, the, 25
• Glover’s “Leonidas,” 175
• Grandfather and grandmother of Watts, 4
• Gunston, Thomas, 220
• Harris, Robert, quo., 257
• Hart, Josiah, 20
• Hartopp, Sir John, 33;
• daughters of, 36
• Hartopps, last of the, 38
• Hertford, Countess of, 172;
• friendship with Watts, 174;
• letters, character of, 173;
• letters to Watts, 167, 174, 176, 179, 181, 182;
• modesty, 182;
• poetry, 177, 184
• Hervey, James, 148;
• letter to Watts, 150
• Hollis family, the, 51
• “Horæ Lyricæ,” 57
• House in French Street, the old, 11;
• old Abney, 223;
• Stoke Newington, 32;
• Theobalds, 79
• Hughes, John, 20
• Hymns, Apostolic, 90
• Hymn, Augustine’s definition of a, 92;
• origin of Watts’ first, 30;
• ? what is a, 93
• Hymnology, Christian, 91;
• English, 99
• Industry, mental, 50;
• of Watts, 249
• Johnson, Dr., quo., 17, 18, 75, 96, 313
• Jones, Rev. Samuel, 25
• Jennings, Dr., quo., 272
• Keble’s “Christian Year,” 89;
• criticism of Watts’ poetry, 103
• Ken, Bishop, and Watts contrasted, 59
• Kennedy, Dr., quo., 111
• Kentish petition, the, 207
• Knox, A., criticism on Watts, 102
• Latin, thinking in, 105
• Letters—Countess of Hertford to Watts, 167, 174, 176, 179, 181, 182;
• Doddridge to Watts, 164;
• Doddridge’s dedicatory, 155;
• Hervey to Watts, 150;
• Jewel to Peter Martyr, 99;
• Lord Barrington to Watts, 147;
• of Enoch Watts, 84;
• Secker to Watts, 25;
• to Amsterdam, 160;
• to an afflicted friend, 53;
• to Bradbury, 195, 197;
• to Doddridge, 153:
• to Samuel Say, 141;
• to Thomas Rosewell, 139;
• Watts to his father, 6
• Liddon, Canon, quo., 90
• Lispings in numbers, 7
• Logan and Doddridge, 162
• London in Watts’ day, 42
• Luther’s songs, 97
• Macaulay, Lord, quo., 211
• Mansion, an old family, 32
• Mark Lane chapel, 54;
• the church in, 46
• Marot, Clement, 98
• Martineau, James, quo., 106
• “Media Vita,” the, 95
• Messianic version of the Psalms, 126
• Mind of Watts, seraphic, 308
• Minories, the, 51
• Modesty of Watts, 132
• Montgomery’s estimate of Watts’ hymns, 88
• Monument to Watts, 271
• Morton, Rev. Charles, 16
• Motto, a, 203
• Mystic, Watts a, 109
• Nature, Watts’ love of, 63
• Nights, sleepless, 83
• Nonconformist, a political, 190
• service, early, 43
• Nonconformists of old London, 45
• Papacy, Watts’ antipathy to, 211
• Parentage of Watts, 3
• Parker, Mr., quo., 264, 265
• Pastor, a youthful, 49
• Pastor of a London church, 40
• Persecution, the child of, 2
• Personal appearance of Watts, 233
• Personification, a definition of, 60
• Personifications, a constellation of, 61
• Perspicuity of Watts, 329
• Philosophical works of Watts, 315
• Physical theory of another life, 233
• Pinhorne, Rev. John, 8
• Poetry of Watts’ time, 58
• Poets, imperfections of, 105
• Polhill, David, 207
• Pope, a criticism on, 175
• Portrait of Watts, a, 224
• Prayer, a beautiful, 309
• Preacher, Watts as a, 40
• Precocity, 7
• Price, Samuel, 54
• Prose writings, Estimate and summary, 273
• Psalmless churches, 101
• Psalms, Watts’, 126
• Pupil, Watts’, 38
• Puritan reminiscence, 43
• “Quarterly Review,” quo., 59
• Relic, an interesting, 270
• Resignation in sorrow, 173
• Watts’, 260
• Rise and Progress of Religion, etc., 155, 162
• Rogers, Henry, quo., 306
• Rogers, Samuel, “Human Life,” characterized, 67
• Rosewell, Samuel, death of, 138
• letter to, 139
• Rowe, Mrs., 173, 187
• and Dr. Watts, 185
• Rowe, Thomas, 17, 24
• Sacheverell mob, doings of the, 209
• Saltzburgers, the, 213
• Say, Samuel, 21, 140
• Schism Bill, the, 209
• Scott, Dr. Daniel, 26
• Selborne, Lord, quo., 122
• Secker, Archbishop, 25
• Sermons, branching, 306;
• satirized by Watts, 306
• Shimei Bradbury, 189
• Shower, John, 138
• Singing controversy, the, 101
• Southampton gaol, 2;
• of Watts’ day, 9;
• plague at, 11
• Southey, Dr., quo., 165
• Spirit, a meek and quiet, 199
• Stoke Newington, 218;
• side of life, 67;
• the old house at, 32
• Storm of 1703, the great, 208
• Students, Watts’ fellow, 19
• Study, methods of, 18;
• Watts’, 82
• Suburb, an old London, 55
• Theobalds, the old house at, 79
• Theological works of Watts, 313
• Theology, nature of Watts’, 109
• Thomson quo., 172
• Times of Watts, 206
• Tunbridge Wells, 250
• Tutor, Watts as a, 37
• Unitarians and Watts, the, 106, 313
• Verse, a perfect, 104
• Verse, the accident of Watts’ life, 73
• Verses, satiric, 69
• Waller quo., 176
• Walsh and Fletcher, death of, 259
• Watchwords and Creeds, 115
• Well, Watts’, 257
• Wesley, Charles, and Watts contrasted, 124
• “Wesleyan Magazine” quo., 107
• Wesleys’ Obligations to Watts, the, 123
• Words, dying, 262
• “World to Come” criticised, 226
• Young, Dr., 216;
• quo., 186
• Zodiac, signs of the, 72.

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