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	Isaac Watts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Isaac Watts (July 17, 1674 - November 25, 1748) is recognised as the 'Father of English Hymnody', as he was the first prolific and popular English hymnwriter, credited with some 750 hymns.
		Watts, unable to go to either Oxford or Cambridge due to his Nonconformity, went to the Dissenting Academy at Stoke Newington in 1690.
		Likewise Isaac Watts held religious opinions that were more nondenominational or ecumenical than was at that time common for a nonconformist; having a greater interest in promoting education and scholarship, than preaching for any particular ministry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isaac_Watts (817 words)

	Isaac Watts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Isaac Watts was born in Southampton on 17 July 1674 and died in London on 25 November 1748.
		Watts states in his Introduction that some of the Essays are thirty or more years old and to this earlier period may be ascribed the long chapter on Locke which seems to represent the result of a detailed study of the Essay carried out with the aid of Henry Lee’s Anti-Scepticism (1702).
		Watts, however, still sees logic as a means of justification and, though paying it lip-service, has little to say about the problems of scientific method raised by the advances of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, though in what was intended as no more than a textbook this may have been inevitable.
	www.thoemmes.com /404.asp?404;http://www.thoemmes.com/encyclopedia/watts.htm (1686 words)

	ISAAC WATTS - LoveToKnow Article on ISAAC WATTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Isaac Watts is stated to have begun to learn Latin when only in his fifth year, and at the age of seven cr eight to have composed some devotional pieces to please his mother.
		In 1712 Watts was attacked by fever, which incapacitated him for four years from the performance of his duties.
		Watts preached only occasionally, devoting his leisure chiefly to the writing of hymns (see HYMNS), the preparation of his sermons for publication, and the composition of theological work.
	49.1911encyclopedia.org /W/WA/WATTS_ISAAC.htm (581 words)

	Isaac Watts
		Isaac Watts was born in 1674, the eldest of eight children, six of whom survived.
		Watts writes of this too, but with a major difference: the backdrop of God's intercourse with the human heart is the cosmos in its unspeakable vastness.
		Watts sees the drama of the incarnation and the cross, the dereliction and the resurrection, as apparently small events that are in fact possessed of cosmic significance.
	www.victorshepherd.on.ca /Sermons/isaac.htm (1758 words)

	Hymnology: Isaac Watts
		Consequently, Isaac Watts was the true shaper of the modern congregational hymn as we know it today and is often called the “Father of English Hymnody.” Isaac Watts was to English hymnody what St.
		Isaac Watts (1674-1748) possessed both the vision for and the ability to join two main streams of Christian song --paraphrases of Scripture and devotional lyric poetry--and to produce the two types of true English hymn for which he is justly famous.
		Watts was the "master of the enormous conception" (an Erik Routley phrase): awe of the omnipotence of God, spaciousness of nature, the vastness of time and the dreadfulness of eternity.
	www.smithcreekmusic.com /Hymnology/Watts/Isaac.Watts.html (1034 words)

	Dictionary of National Biography: Watts, Isaac (1674-1748) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		WATTS, ISAAC (1674-1748), hymn-writer, was born at Southampton on 17 July 1674.
		Isaac Watts was the oldest of nine children, of whom Richard lived to be a physician, Enoch was bred to the sea, and Sarah married a draper named Brackstone at Southampton.
		Watts received an excellent education at the grammar school from John Pinhorne, rector of All Saints, Southampton, prebendary of Leckford, and vicar of Eling, Hampshire: a Pindaric ode to Pinhorne, by Watts, describes the wide range of his classical teaching.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/ccel/eee/files/watts.htm (1768 words)

	Isaac Watts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Isaac Watts’ voice was thin and he faced recurring illness, yet when he preached crowds hung on words they knew poured from a heart wrapped in the heart of God.
		Isaac Watts was the first Englishman to succeed in overcoming English prejudices that opposed the introduction of hymns for congregational singing in public worship.
		Isaac Watts said he made David speak "the language of a Christian" (Preface to The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament and applied to the Christian State and Worship).
	www.firstpresbyterianwellsboro.org /2005Sermons/serm050102.htm (1294 words)

	§24. Older contemporaries of Pope: Isaac Watts and his “Hymns.” Sir Samuel Garth. VI. Lesser Verse ...
		Not a few of the later born of them, as well as many of those who will be noticed in a subsequent chapter, 39 make their appearance, if not their first or only appearance, in that remarkable collection of Dodsley, to which, accordingly, we must devote some direct attention as a whole.
		Some, such as Watts, have an abiding memory for parts of their work, while the rest is absolutely forgotten.
		Watts was one of the earliest to try blank verse; and few will think his “essays without rhyme,” as he himself called them, an item on the wrong side of his account.
	bartleby.com /219/0624.html (705 words)

	Watts
		Isaac Watts was a Congregational minister in the early 1 8th century.
		Isaac was born of solid dissenting stock in Southampton in 1674, the eldest of nine children.
		Isaac was a sickly child and as he grew he did not enjoy robust health.
	www.urc.org.uk /documents/isaac_watts/watts_index.htm (3200 words)

	Isaac Watts - God's Gift to the Church (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Isaac Watts was born on July 7, 1674, in Southampton, England.
		Isaac Watts was educated at Stoke Newington Academy and afterward worked as a private tutor for several years.
		The general themes of most of the songs composed by Isaac Watts are the sovereignty of God, the efficacy of the sacrifice of Christ for man’s salvation and the consecration of the believer.
	www.truthinhistory.org /Isaac_Watts.htm (1222 words)

	Isaac Watts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Isaac Watts (July 17 1674 - November 25 1748) recognised as the 'Father of English as he was the first both prolific popular English hymnwriter credited with some 750 hymns.
		Watts was brought up in the home a committed Nonconformist - his father had been imprisoned for his views.
		Isaac Watts wrote Hymns with the assumption that theology was necessary to worship.
	www.freeglossary.com /Isaac_Watts (469 words)

	Christian Hymnswriters
		Isaac continued with his studies, and in 1702, after his ordination as a minister of the Gospel, he became pastor of a church in London, which he served for the rest of his life.
		Isaac Watts was a brilliant educator (the textbooks he wrote were used for more than 100 years), a notable poet, and the best known of all London ministers in his day.
		Sir Thomas made Watts the private chaplain of his household, and Watts was held in great esteem by the Abneys, who considered it an honor to have him in their home.
	www.angelfire.com /tn/Praveen/iwatts.html (708 words)

	Biography Isaac Watts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Isaac Watts was the first Englishman to succeed in overcoming the prejudices that opposed the introduction of hymns into English public worship.
		When Isaac Watts’s hymns began to find their way into favor, many conservative religious people disdainfully called them “Watts’s whims.” While Martin Luther’s hymns were being sung widely in Germany, Watts’s hymns were still fighting their way into some churches, sometimes as much as thirty to forty years later.
		Isaac Watts’s Hymns and Psalms of David Imitates was also well known in the United States colonies in the eighteenth century.
	www.tlogical.net /bioiwatts.htm (483 words)

	Remembering Issac Watts
		Isaac Watts is considered to be the father of the English Hymn as well as one of the greatest hymn writers of all time composing more hymns in popular use than any other man except possibly Charles Wesley.
		Isaac born in 1674, was the fearless son of an equally fearless Nonconformist father.
		In 1662 when the Act of Conformity was passed, Isaac’s father (also named Isaac) was imprisoned along with many of the two thousand ministers who were ejected from the Church of England for refusing to con- form to the laws of the land relating to the worship of God.
	holybible.com /resources/living_learning/spring_1999/Issac_watts.htm (1449 words)

	Watts, Isaac. Collection. MSS 288
		Isaac Watts, hymn writer and author of devotional poetry and prose, was born in Southampton in 1674.
		Watts was almost a Unitarian in his religious outlook.
		Isaac Watts died at Stoke Newington in 1748.
	www.pitts.emory.edu /Archives/text/mss288.html (226 words)

	When I Survey the Wondrous Cross - Text Only
		This hymn by Isaac Watts, labeled by the well-known theologian Matthew Arnold as the greatest hymn in the English language, was written in 1707 for use at a communion service conducted by Watts.
		Watts once wrote, "The singing of God's praise is the part of worship most closely related to heaven; but its performance among us is the worst on earth." One Sunday after returning from a typically poor service, Watts continued to rail against the congregational singing.
		Isaac Watts is also the author of "Am I a Soldier of the Cross?", and "Joy to the World!".
	www.webedelic.com /church/isurveyt.htm (883 words)

	Isaac Watts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Poems of Dr. WATTS were by my recommendation inserted in the late Collection; the readers of which are to impute to me whatever pleasure or weariness they may find in the perusal of Blackmore, Watts, Pomfret, and Yalden.
		ISAAC WATTS was born July 17, 1674, at Southampton, where his father, of the same name, kept a boarding-school for young gentlemen, though common report makes him a shoemaker.
		Isaac, the eldest of nine children, was given to books from his infancy; and began, we are told, to learn Latin when he was four years old, I suppose, at home.
	www2.hn.psu.edu /Faculty/KKemmerer/poets/watts (1956 words)

	Isaac Watts
		But regardless of his brilliance Watts would be admitted to either university only if he were willing to renounce the convictions that had exacted terrible suffering from his parents.
		Yet Watts was unique in his emphasis on the backdrop of God's intercourse with the human heart: the cosmos in its unspeakable vastness.
		Watts sees the drama of the incarnation and the cross, the dereliction and the resurrection, as seemingly small events that are in fact possessed of cosmic significance.
	www.victorshepherd.on.ca /Heritage/isaac.htm (919 words)

	Who is Jesus: Sir Isaac Watts
		What a fact this in the history of that theory!...One copy of that work of Watts escaped the flames; and half a century afterward, it was found in a bookstore at Southhampton (England, 1796); so that it can tell us of the workings of his inquisitive, anxious, humble and devout mind, on this great subject.
		Comment: Sir Isaac reminds the respondent that he has prayed on bended knew, at all hours to find out what his responsibility is toward the doctrine of the trinity.
		Since Sir Isaac's piety was above suspicion, some of his friends ascribed his change of views in regard to the holy trinity to insanity or imbecility.
	www.whoisjesus.com /watts.html (2241 words)

	Isaac Watts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Isaac Watts was born in Southhampton, England on July 17, 1674.
		Watts was pastor of a large Congregational church in London but poor health prevented him from devoting very much time to his ministerial duties.
		Watts is credited with having written over 750 hymns, including setting most of the Psalms into English metre, many of them set in multiple metres.
	www.cgmusic.com /workshop/watts_frame.htm (171 words)

	Isaac Watts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Isaac Watts (July 17, EHandler: no quick summary.
		(Watts was brought up in the home of a committed Nonconformist[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] - his father had been imprisoned twice for his views.
		The hymn, when i survey the wondrous cross, was written by isaac watts, and published in hymns and spiritual songs in 1707....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/is/isaac_watts.htm (798 words)

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		Isaac’s taste for verse showed itself in early childhood, and his promise caused a local doctor and other friends to offer him a university education, assuming he would be ordained in the Church of England.
		However, Isaac declined and instead entered a Nonconformist Academy at Stoke Newington in 1690, under the care of Thomas Rowe, pastor of the Independent congregation at Girdlers’ Hall; Isaac joined this congregation in 1693.
		Watts left the Academy at age 20 and spent two years at home; it was during this period that he wrote the bulk of his Hymns and Spiritual Songs.
	www.cyberhymnal.org /bio/w/a/t/watts_i.htm (825 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Isaac Watts
		A hymn is a type of song, usually religious, specifically written for the purpose of praise, adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a god or other religiously significant figure.
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		Blake Memorial in Bunhill Fields Bunhill Fields is a cemetery located in the London Borough of Islington, north of the City of London, and managed by the Corporation of London.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Isaac-Watts (2071 words)

	Ambassador-Emerald - Product: Isaac Watts
		Isaac Watts wrote a total of more than six hundred hymns, earning him the title ‘The Father of English Hymnody’.
		In his hymns Isaac Watts takes the Word of God, and distils it so that all its wisdom, beauty and comfort are set before us with plainness and power.
		No wonder then, that C H Spurgeon’s grandfather, himself a great preacher, and in the life of the puritans, would have nothing else but the hymns of Isaac Watts sung in his services.
	www.emeraldhouse.com /prodinfo.asp?PID=isaacwatts (157 words)

	Watts, Isaac d. 4/25/1885 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Isaac Watts was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, June 13, 1817 and was brought up to the trade of a stonemason.
		Watts had for some time been slightly ailing, but continued up to the day before his death to carry the mail to and from the depot, and retired Friday evening about as well as usual.
		Watts was the father of nine children, seven of whom survive him; all of them having families of their own.
	iagenweb.org /boards/vanburen/obituaries/index.cgi?read=87020 (288 words)

	Isaac Watts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Dickinson family had many hymns written by Isaac Watts in their house.
		Born in 1674 in Northampton, England, Watts was an Anglican dissenter who became a priest in an independent church.
		However, Watts' influence on Dickinson does not end with common meter - he also used loose rhyme and an air of breathlessness (he used many exclamation marks, mirrored by Dickinson with her prolific use of dashes for the same effect) that is very apparent in Dickinson's work.
	www.davidson.edu /academic/english/EmilyDickinson/Influences/watts.html (97 words)

	James W. Crawford Old South Church Sermon October 26, 2003 Minister Emeritus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Watts described his religious and aesthetic vision of the Psalms as follows: "David left a rich variety of holy songs, but rich as it is, it is still far short of the glorious things we Christians have to sing before the Lord."
		Watts' universal ruler, of course, is Jesus Christ, and in what is known as the "Greatest Missionary Hymn ever written" we express our hope, as we encounter the dangers, risks, the injury and conflict of our world.
		As one Watts biographer writes, the Schism Bill surfaced recollection of a time "when the thumbscrew, the rack and other holy ordinances were religiously administered," and "the burning of a martyr was a popular entertainment." Dissenters of the Watts stripe were once more to be "fined, pilloried, dungeoned, exiled, done to death.
	world.std.com /~eshu/osc/jwc26oct03.htm (2865 words)

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