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His wife, Elizabeth, was a daughter of the Lord General Charles Fleetwood, whose second wife, Bridget Cromwell, was the eldest daughter of the Protector, Oliver Cromwell. Fleetwood and his wife had both died, the former only four years before (1692).
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One of the main thrusts of Watts’s work was to theologically interpret the Psalms. As Watts saw it, Christian worship should be a meditation on the gospel. By exclusively singing Psalms, it relegated the church to singing in language that was prophetic and predictive, excluding the accomplished work of Christ that illuminates all that the Psalms fo...
Here are a few things worship leaders can learn from Watts’s legacy: 1. Worship leading is pastoral.Watts was first and foremost a pastor. His work in bringing reform to worship practices flowed from concern for the people of God. In an age of celebrity worship leaders and pastors, we can be reminded that Watts, with his profound contribution to th...
About four years ago, I began to notice how many of the hymns we sang at Sojourn were written by Isaac Watts. When I began to look at his body of work, and when I discovered what he’d done for the culture of worship in the English-speaking world, it sent me (and Sojourn music) on a pretty radical journey. In 2009, we released Over the Grave: The Hy...
Dec 16, 2019 · Consider Sir Isaac Watts (1674-1748). Watts was a prolific writer, penning over 600 hymns over his lifetime. And while inspired to write verse, his talent came naturally – even as a child, he used rhymes in casual conversation. There is the story that Watts’ father became so annoyed with his son’s rhyming habit that he demanded that the ...
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Jan 8, 2024 · Watts was a prodigy, demonstrating early genius: he began learning Latin by the age of four, Greek at nine, and Hebrew at thirteen. When Southampton, his hometown, took in a surge of Huguenot refugees, he decided he needed to add French to his already prodigious linguistic arsenal. It was his mastery of language that enabled him to begin ...
Isaac refused and at 16 went to London to study at a leading Nonconformist academy. Upon graduation, he spent five years as a private tutor. ... Isaac Watts born. 1748. Isaac Watts dies. 1771 ...
His wife was daughter of an Alderman Taunton at Southampton, and had Huguenot blood in her veins. 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.
May 26, 2014 · Isaac Watts: The Calvinist. Douglas Bond. 2 Min Read. As a biblically informed theologian and preacher, Isaac Watts found his mind and imagination drawn to meditation on the infinity of the God who, by His power and authority, laid out and sustained the heavens and the entire universe. Describing Watts' fascination with the immensity of the sky ...
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