Isaac Watts
Isaac Watts (1674 –1748) was an English Congregational preacher, theologian and hymn writer.
Isaac Watts Hymn Studies
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Lord, Raise Me Above The Ground
1 Lord, raise my soul above the ground, And draw my thoughts to Thee; Teach me, with sweet and solemn sound, To praise the eternal Three. Long ere the lofty skies were spread, Jehovah filled His throne; Or Adam formed, or angels made, The Maker lived alone. 2 His boundless years can ne’er decrease, But still maintain their prime; Eternity’s His dwelling-place, And ever is His time; While like a tide our minutes flow, The present and the past, He fills His own immortal NOW, And sees our ages waste.
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How Pleasant, How Divinely Fair
1 How pleasant, how divinely fair, O Lord of Hosts, Thy dwellings are! With long desire my spirit faints, To meet the assemblies of Thy saints. 2 Blest are the saints who sit on high, Around the throne of Majesty; Thy brightest glories shine above, And all their work is praise and love.
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God In His Earthly Temples Lays
1 God in his earthly temples lays Foundations for his heavenly praise; He likes the tents of Jacob well, But still in Zion loves to dwell. 2 His mercy visits every house, That pay their night and morning vows; But makes a more delightful stay Where churches meet to praise and pray.
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The Lord, Descending From Above
1 The Lord, descending from above, Invites his children near, While power, and truth, and boundless love Display their glories here. 2 Here, in thy gospel’s wondrous frame, Fresh wisdom we pursue; A thousand angels learn thy name, Beyond whate’er they knew.
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The Life And Death Of Isaac Watts
Isaac Watts, Independent. Isaac Watts, D.D., Pastor of a Church of Christ in London; successor of the Rev. Mr. Joseph Caryl, Dr. John Owen, Mr. David Clarkson, and Dr. Isaac Chauncey; after fifty years of feeble labours in the gospel, interrupted by four years of tiresome sickness, was at last dismissed to rest, Nov. 25, A.D. 1748, set. 75.—2 Cor. 5:8, Absent from the body, present with the Lord.—Col 3:4, When Christ who is our lift shall appear, I shall also appear with him him in glory. In unno Jesu omnia. This monument, on which the above modest inscription is placed by order of the deceased, was erected as a testimony of regard to his memory, by Sir John Hartopp, Bart, and Dame Mary Abney.…
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How Oft Have Sin And Satan Strove
Hebrews 6:17-19: "Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;" Isaiah 54:8: "In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, saith the Lord thy Redeemer."
