Isaac Watts
Isaac Watts
Isaac Wattswas an English Christian minister, hymnwriter, theologian and logician. A prolific and popular hymn writer, his work was part of evangelization. He was recognized as the "Father of English Hymnody", credited with some 750 hymns. Many of his hymns remain in use today and have been translated into numerous languages...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth17 July 1674
grief sea weeping
For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.
self long prejudice
The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices.
jewels certain observation
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.
poor walks
Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me?
hands would-be satan
In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.
world human-nature glory
Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world.
pain night land
There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.
judging logic helping
Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.
pride degrees reason
Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
bible jobs rome
In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome.
writing trying may
I write not for your farthing, but to try / How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
soul way sin
Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.
heard slumber
'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.