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“Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream.”
Source: An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts
Source: Twenty-Eight Divine Songs for the use of Children
Source: The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes
“Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.”
Source: Sermons on Various Subjects, Divine and Moral: With a Sacred Hymn Suited to Each Subject. Design'd for the Use of Christian Families as Well as for the Hours of Devout Retirement
Source: The Penny Watts's Hymns ... Selected and Abridged from Dr. Watts's Hymns
Source: A Guide to Prayer
“For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.”
“Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.”
Source: The Improvement of the Mind
Source: The Improvement of the Mind ... By Isaac Watts, D.D. Also His Posthumous Works Published from His Manuscripts by D. Jennings, D.D. and P. Doddridge
Source: The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, Containing, Besides His Sermons and Essays on Miscellaneous Subjects, Several Additional Pieces, Selected from His Manuscripts by the Rev. Dr. Jennings and the Rev. Dr. Doddridge in 1753: To which are Prefixed Memoirs of the Life of the Author
Source: An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts
“Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.”
Source: The Improvement of the Mind; with a Discourse on the Education of Children and Youth
Source: The Psalms and Hymns of Dr. Watts
“Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.”
Source: The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes
“No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.”
Source: An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts
Source: The Psalms of David, Imitated in the Language of the New Testament: And Applied to the Christian State and Worship. by I. Watts
Source: Hymns and Spiritual Songs ... With some additional hymns, taken from the Doctor's sermons
Source: Dr. Watts' Psalms and hymns with Dr. Rippon's selection: containing all the additional hymns : with copious indices, including an index of the first line of each verse of Psalms and hymns
Source: The Penny Watts's Hymns ... Selected and Abridged from Dr. Watts's Hymns
Source: The Improvement of the Mind: Or, A Supplement to the Art of Logic
Source: The Poetical Works of Isaac Watts, D.D. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings
Source: Parish psalmody: A collection of psalms and hymns for public worship: containing Dr. Watts's versification of the psalms of David, entire, a large portion of Dr. Watts's hymns, and psalms and hymns by other authors, selected and original. To which are appended, the confession of faith and Shorter catechism of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.
Source: The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes
Source: The Improvement of the Mind
Source: The Improvement of the Mind
“I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.”
Source: The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes