Isaac Watts
His Life and Hymns
by Paxton Hood
Softcover in good condition with minor edge wear, a bookstore price tag on the back cover and a few red marks on the upper page edges. There is no other writing or highlighting.
348 pages, First Ambassador edition 2001, ISBN 1840300981, Ambassador Publishers
From the back cover
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
Jesus Shall Reign
O God, Our Help in Ages Past
There Is a Land of Pure Delight
Joy to the World
Am I a Soldier of the Cross
Isaac Watts wrote a total of more than six hundred hymns, earning him the title 'The Father of Hymnody'.
Even as a child Isaac had shown a passion for poetry. His serious-minded father, after several warnings, decided to spank the rhyming nonsense out of his son. But the tearful Isaac helplessly replied, 'O father do some pity take, and I shall no more verses make.'
However, choirs, congregations and individual Christians rejoice to this day that the young lad did not keep his impromptu promise.
In his hmyns Isaac Watts takes the Word of God and distills 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 line of the puritans, would have nothing else but the hymns of Isaac Watts sung in his services.
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