Isaac Watts (1674–1748)
Autor de Logic: The Right Use of Reason in the Inquiry After Truth
Sobre El Autor
Isaac Watts, 1674 - 1748 English theologian Issac Watts was born in Southampton in 1674. He was educated at an academy of Dissenters at Stoke Newington, which is now part of London. He spent many years as a tutor, preacher, and assistant pastor and in 1702, became minister of a Dissenting church in mostrar más London. Watts wrote books on theological subjects, such as "Scripture History" (1732), and a collection of religious poems titled "Horae Lyricae" (1706). He also published two hymn collections, "Hymns" (1707; 2nd edition 1709), and "The Psalms of David" (1719). Among his hymns still sung are "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross" and "O God, Our Help in Ages Past." (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Source: "The story of the hymns and tunes,"
by Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
(New York, 1906)
(Project Guttenberg)
by Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
(New York, 1906)
(Project Guttenberg)
Obras de Isaac Watts
The Improvement of the Mind: A Supplement to the Art of Logic With a Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth… (1987) 177 copias
The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts 9 copias
A Short Essay Toward the Improvement of Psalmody Or, An Enquiry How the Psalms of David Ought to Be Translated into… (2010) 9 copias
Childhood Songs of Long Ago: Divine and Moral Songs, Sonnets, Prayers, and Simplified Piano Accompaniments (2007) 4 copias
Discourses of the love of God, and its influences on all the passions : with a discovery of the right use and abuse of… (2007) 4 copias
Hymns and Spiritual Songs 4 copias
The Beauties of Isaac Watts (1797) 4 copias
My Shepherd Will Supply My Need 2 copias
Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed. G major. Music: Hugh Wilson. Text: Isaac Watts. Tune: Martyrdom. — Lyricist — 2 copias
No Pain Among the Blessed 2 copias
Evangelical Discourses on Several Subjects (Classic Reprint): To Which Is Added, an Essay on the Powers and Contests of… (2015) 2 copias
Logic (Abridged) 1 copia
World to Come or Discourses on the Joys or Sorrows of Departed Souls at Death and the Glory or Terror of the… (2003) 1 copia
Doctor Watts's imitation of the Psalms of David: Corrected and enlarged. Fourth Edition (2017) 1 copia
The improvement of the mind, to which is added a discourse on the education of children and youth. With Dr.… (2015) 1 copia
When i survey The hymn makers 1 copia
An Essay on the Freedom of Will in God and in Creatures: And on Various Subjects Connected Therewith (Classic Reprint) (2016) 1 copia
Sermons on Various Subjects, Divine and Moral with a Sacred Hymn suited to each Subject, Vol I 1 copia
PSALM'S OF DAVID 1 copia
The Psalms of David 1 copia
A discourse on the way of instruction by catechisms, and of the best method of composing them 1 copia
Scripture History 1 copia
Joy to the World 1 copia
Joy to the World 1 copia
Church Psalmody: A Collection of Psalms and Hymns, Adapted to Public Worship. Selected From Watts and Other Authors (2016) 1 copia
Joy! G-7393 1 copia
The poems of Isaac Watts 1 copia
Ko nga katikihama etoru 1 copia
Dr. Watts’ First Catechism 1 copia
Hymns for Chilren 1 copia
Twelve sermons, on various subjects, divine and moral ... with a hymn, suited to each subject 1 copia
We Sing the Mighty Power of God 1 copia
200 Lyrics of Christian Hymn 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
English Verse: Volume 3: The Eighteenth Century: Swift to Crabbe (Penguin Classics) (1995) — Contribuidor — 11 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Watts, Isaac
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1674-07-17
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1748-11-25
- Lugar de sepultura
- Bunhill Fields cemetery, London, England
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- País (para mapa)
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Southhampton, Hampshire, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Stoke Newington, London, England, UK
- Educación
- King Edward VI School, Southampton, UK
Dissenting Academy, Newington Green, London - Ocupaciones
- minister
schoolmaster - Biografía breve
- Iaasc Watts was an invalid schoolmaster who wrote over 500 hymns. He acquired his gift of poetry from his father, a Southhampton schoolmaster. He became a tutor when he grew up, and then a minister, and received the degree of doctor of divinity from a Scottish university. He was taken ill when thirty-eight years old, and went for a rest at the home of Sir Thomas Abney at Theobalds, which he never left till he died, thirty-six years later. --- Adapted from The Writers of the Hymns, The Book of Knowledge (1912) Vol. VII, page 1998.
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From chapter 1 he says, “Presume not too much upon a bright genius, a ready wit, and good parts; for this without labor and study will never make a man of knowledge.” He goes on to say that a large quantity of reading and strong memory do not make one wise. He counsels students to not lean on their own wisdom, but to trust in God and ask him for guidance in all things (Prov. 3:5, 7). It is his providence that can direct a thought or conversation to be more useful than a month’s solitary study. Therefore, a man ought to “let industry and devotion join together.” In chapter 4, he says, “a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food, and without real improvement of their minds, for want of digesting it by proper reflections.”
After Watts lists out some general rules in chapter 1, he plunges into the real matter of his writing. He talks on the methods of improving the mind (observation, reading, lectures, conversation and study), then moves on to topics like reading and judging books, improvement by conversation, debating, meditation, fixing the attention, improving the memory, determining whether a topic is worth pursuing, benefits of poetry and the natural sciences. Part 2 dives into how to best instruct others in the truth.
It is a unique work and I’ve never read anything quite like it. Sometimes, it can feel a bit tedious due to the older style language, but I found it both enjoyable and profitable overall. It also happens to be available for free on the world wide web!… (más)