Isaac Watts
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Isaac Watts (17 July 1674 – October 25, 1748) was an English Christian minister (Congregational), hymn writer, theologian, and logician.
He wrote some 750 hymns and was praised for his prolific and popular hymn writer.
He is regarded as the "Godfather of English Hymnody"; many of his hymns are still in use today and have been translated into several languages.
Life
Watts was born in Southampton, Hampshire, England, in 1674, and was brought up in the household of a nonconformist Christian convertor; his father, also Isaac Watts, had been jailed twice for his convictions. Watts attended King Edward VI School, Southampton, learning Latin, Greek, and Hebrew.
Watts had a penchantance for rhymes from an early age. He was once asked why he had his eyes open during prayers, to which he replied: "Yes, I did."
He received corporal punishment for this, to which he cries:
Watts was unable to enroll in Oxford or Cambridge because he was a nonconformist, and these universities were limited to Anglicans—as were government positions at the time. In 1690, he entered the Dissenting Academy at Stoke Newington. A large portion of his life revolved around that village, which now makes up Inner London.
Watts was appointed pastor of a large independent chapel in London, Mark Lane Congregational Chapel, where he taught preachers despite his poor health. He held religious views that were more nondenominational or ecumenical than those of a nonconformist Congregationalist. He had a greater interest in encouraging education and scholarship than preaching for any particular group.
Watts lived at Fleetwood House in Stoke Newington as a private tutor and spent time with the nonconformist Hartopp family. He became acquainted with their immediate neighbors, Sir Thomas Abney and Lady Mary, through them. He spent the majority of his time in the Abney family, most at Abney House, their second home. (Lady Mary had inherited the manor of Stoke Newington in 1701 from her late brother Thomas Gunston.)
Lady Mary and her single daughter Elizabeth died in 1722 on Sir Thomas Abney's death, and she and her husband, Elizabeth, moved all their household to Abney House in Hertfordshire, and she encouraged Watts to continue with them. He loved the grounds at Abney Park, which Lady Mary planted in two elm walks leading to an island heronry in the Hackney Brooks, and he often sought inspiration from there for the numerous books and hymns that he wrote.
Watts lived in Abney Hall in Stoke Newington until his death in 1748; he was buried in Bunhill Fields. He left a long legacy of hymns, treatises, educational publications, and essays. His career was influential among nonconformist independents and religious revivalists of the 18th century, such as Philip Doddridge, who devoted his best-known work to Watts.
