Isaac Watts

<body><msnavigation dir="ltr" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><msnavigation valign="top"> <h1 align="center">Isaac Watts</h1> <p>Isaac Watts was born in Southhampton, England on July 17, 1674. His father had spent quite a lot of time in prison because he would not conform to the mandates of the Church of England. Watts was pastor of a large Congregational church in London but poor health prevented him from devoting very much time to his ministerial duties. When he tried to resign because of his poor health, the congregation insisted that he remain as long as he lived.</p> <p>Watts is credited with having written over 750 hymns, including setting most of the Psalms into English metre, many of them set in multiple metres. Benjamin Franklin first brought Watts psalms and hymns to the United States.Watts died in 1748.</p> <p>A very good short sketch of Watts life is available at: <a href="http://www.gospelcom.net/chi/glimpses/twentyseven.html" target="_blank">http://www.gospelcom.net/chi/glimpses/twentyseven.html</a></p> <p>We will be posting most of Watts psalms here, as well as the words of many of his other hymns. </p> <p> </p> <p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p> <p> <a href="watts_index.htm">Index of Isaac Watts  Psalms</a> <p><a href="watts/index.htm">Isaac Watts</a></td></tr></table><msnavigation border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td> <p align="center"><img border="0" src="../images/narule.gif" width="300" height="10"> <small><br> Page Copyright 2001, <a target="_parent" href="/cgmusic.com/">Music for the Church of God</font></a><br> e-mail us at:<a href="mailto:webmaster@cgmusic.com"> webmaster@cgmusic.com</a><br> Page last modified on: 07/29/2004</font> <img src="../../cgmusic/home.asp" alt="" border="0" WIDTH="0" HEIGHT="0" lowsrc="../../cgmusic/images/pixel.gif"> </small></p> </td></tr></table></body>