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The Works of the Rev. Isaac Watts, Vol. 6 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Known as the “Father of English Hymnody,” Isaac Watts is one of England’s most influential hymnists. Credited with over five hundred hymns—including “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross” and “Joy to the World”—he left behind a massive legacy. He paved the way to the inclusion of “original songs of Christian experience” in worship. His introduction of extrabiblical poetry opened doors to new forms of...

the same time it was able by an act of its will to send out or with-hold every sun-beam as it pleased, and thereby to give light and darkness, life and death in a sovereign manner to all the animal inhabitants of this our earth, or even of all the planetary worlds. Such may be the “glorified human soul of our blessed Redeemer united to his glorified body;” and perhaps his knowledge and his power may be as extensive as this similitude represents; especially when we consider this soul and body as personally
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