Isaac Watts was an English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician. He was a prolific and popular hymn writer and is credited with some 750 hymns. His works include "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross", "Joy to the World", and "O God, Our Help in Ages Past".
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Statue of Watts, Abney Park Cemetery
The title page of Watts's Guide to Prayer, fourth edition, 1725
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Watts's tomb in Bunhill Fields
London's only public statue to Watts is in Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington.
Statue of Watts in Watts Park, Southampton (city of his birth)
"Against Idleness and Mischief"Academics born in the 1670s 6
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Isaac Watts was an English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician. He was a prolific and popular hymn writer and is credited with some 750 hymns. His works include "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross", "Joy to the World", and "O God, Our Help in Ages Past". He is recognised as the "Godfather of English Hymnody"; many of his hymns remain in use today and have been translated into numerous languages.
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