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Isaac Watts

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Isaac Watts was an English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician. He was a prolific and popular hymn writer and is credited with some 750 hymns. His works include "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross", "Joy to the World", and "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past". He is recognized as the "Godfather of English Hymnody"; many of his hymns remain in use today and have been translated into numerous languages.

Books

Logic, Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth with a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as Well as in the Sciences

Logic, Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth with a Variety of Rules to Guard Against Error in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as Well as in the Sciences

The Improvement of the Mind

The Improvement of the Mind

The Improvement of the Mind

The Improvement of the Mind

The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D.

The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts, D.D.

The Psalms of David

The Psalms of David

Logic, Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth, with ... Rules to Guard Against Error, in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as Well as in the Sciences. [With a Portrait.]

Logic, Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth, with ... Rules to Guard Against Error, in the Affairs of Religion and Human Life, as Well as in the Sciences. [With a Portrait.]

Psalms Carefully Suited to the Christian Worship in the United States of America

Psalms Carefully Suited to the Christian Worship in the United States of America

Works, Published by Himself

Works, Published by Himself

Horæ Lyricæ ... Poems chiefly of the lyric kind, in three books. Sixth edition, corrected. Bound with 'Books printed for Tho. Astley, at the Rose over against the North Door of St. Paul's, London

Horæ Lyricæ ... Poems chiefly of the lyric kind, in three books. Sixth edition, corrected. Bound with 'Books printed for Tho. Astley, at the Rose over against the North Door of St. Paul's, London

The Psalms of David

The Psalms of David

Hymns and Spiritual Songs ... Fifth edition, corrected and much enlarged

Hymns and Spiritual Songs ... Fifth edition, corrected and much enlarged

A Short View of the Whole Scripture History

A Short View of the Whole Scripture History

Divine and Moral Songs for the Use of Children

Divine and Moral Songs for the Use of Children

Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language

Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language

The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts, D.D.

The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts, D.D.

Elegant miscellaneous extracts selected from Watts, Hervey, Newton, Young, Blair, Sturm, &c. To which are added, a few original pieces. A new edition

Elegant miscellaneous extracts selected from Watts, Hervey, Newton, Young, Blair, Sturm, &c. To which are added, a few original pieces. A new edition

A short view of the whole Scripture history

A short view of the whole Scripture history

TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY - Christmas Carols & Poems

TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY - Christmas Carols & Poems

Ben Jonson, Clement Clarke Moore, William Morris, Carolyn Wells, Emily Dickinson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nora A. Smith, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Martin Luther, Charles Mackay, John Milton, Robert Browning, Charles Kingsley, Isaac Watts, William Shakespeare, Rudyard Kipling, William Butler Yeats, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Makepeace Thackeray, Andrew Lang, Robert Herrick, James Montgomery, Margaret Deland, Reginald Heber, James Russell Lowell, Dinah Maria Mulock, Eugene Field, Edmund Hamilton Sears, William Drummond, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Robert Southwell, Phillips Brooks, George Wither, Eliza Cook, Frances Ridley Havergal, Emily Huntington Miller, Alfred Domett, C. W. Stubbs, William Topaz McGonagall, Edmund Bolton, C.S. Stone, Harriet F. Blodgett, Christian Burke, Cyril Winterbotham

The Ruin and Recovery of Mankind: ... with an Answer to Various Difficulties

Whereto are Subjoin'd Three Short Essays

The Ruin and Recovery of Mankind: ... with an Answer to Various Difficulties

Logic, Or the Right Use of Reason, in the Inquiry After Truth

Logic, Or the Right Use of Reason, in the Inquiry After Truth

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