In many Christadelphian hymn books a sizeable proportion of hymns are drawn from the Scottish Psalter and non-Christadelphian hymn-writers including Isaac Watts, Charles Wesley, William Cowper and John Newton.

The earlier English writers tended to paraphrase biblical texts, particularly Psalms ; Isaac Watts followed this tradition, but is also credited as having written the first English hymn which was not a direct paraphrase of Scripture.

Isaac Watts has been called " the father of English hymnody ," but Erik Routley sees him more as " the liberator of English hymnody ," because his hymns, and hymns like them, moved worshipers beyond singing only Old Testament psalms, inspiring congregations and revitalizing worship.

One of the most common manifestations of stanzaic form in poetry in English ( and in other Western European languages ) is represented in texts for church hymns, such as the first three stanzas ( of nine ) from a poem by Isaac Watts ( from 1719 ) cited immediately below ( in this case, each stanza is to be sung to the same hymn tune, composed earlier by William Croft in 1708 ):

* Isaac Watts, English hymnist

* November 25 – Isaac Watts, English hymn writer ( b. 1674 )

* July 17 – Isaac Watts, English hymnist ( d. 1748 )

The BBC has for many years introduced its 7 am News broadcast on Radio 4 on Good Friday with a verse from Isaac Watts ' hymn " When I Survey the Wondrous Cross ".

A century later, it passed to Lady Mary Abney who drew up the first detailed maps of field boundaries and began to lay out a manorial parkland behind today's fire station on Church Street, with the aid of Dr Isaac Watts and her daughters.

* Isaac Watts ( 1674-1748 ), theologian, logician and hymnwriter – lived and died at Abney House.

Edward Baily's public statue to Isaac Watts at Abney Park Cemetery | Abney Park, Stoke Newington

* Dr Isaac Watts – Dr Watts ' Walk, Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, London

Some of the many soloists who have appeared with the orchestra include violinists Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Yehudi Menuhin, Midori, Itzhak Perlman, Isaac Stern and Efrem Zimbalist ; and pianists Vladimir Horowitz, Horacio Gutierrez, Vladimir de Pachmann, Peter Serkin, Rudolf Serkin, Ruth Slenzynska, Patricia Benkman, Ozan Marsh and André Watts.

* Dr Isaac Watts, the celebrated ' Father of Hymnology ' whose hymns have been sung worldwide and was also a poet and educationalist.

* Isaac Watts ( 1674 – 1742 ), Hymn Writer, Educationalist and Poet

* O God, Our Help in Ages Past – words by Isaac Watts, music by William Croft

In Unitarian Universalism, " the Doxology " refers to Curtis W. Reese's adaptation of " From all that dwell below the skies ", an 18th-century paraphrase of Psalm 117 by Isaac Watts:

Isaac Watts replied to Taylor in The Ruin and Recovery of Man ( 1740 ).

*‘ Remarks on such additions to the second Edition of the Ruin and Recovery of the Arguments Advanced in the Supplement to the Scripture Doctrine of Original Sin ,’ London: printed and sold by M Fenner at Turk's Head, Gracechurch Street, 1742, ( reply to Isaac Watts ) in Dr William's Library, all included in 3rd edit.

* Isaac Watts

The hymn, " When I Survey the Wondrous Cross ", was written by Isaac Watts, and published in Hymns and Spiritual Songs in 1707.

Isaac Watts ( 17 July 1674 – 25 November 1748 ) was an English hymnwriter, theologian and logician.

Born in Southampton, England, in 1674, Watts was brought up in the home of a committed religious Nonconformist — his father, also Isaac Watts, had been incarcerated twice for his controversial views.

* 1839 – Isaac K. Funk, American minister and publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls ( d. 1912 )

In 1932, Henry Jacques Gaisman, inventor and founder of the Gillette safety razor blade, purchased of land along Ridge Road, most of which he purchased from George A. C. Christiancy, son of the former U. S. minister to Peru, Isaac Peckham Christiancy.

The town is best known as the birthplace of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, and the place where Isaac Newton went to school.

Isaac Kaufmann Funk ( September 10, 1839April 4, 1912 ) was an American Lutheran minister, editor, lexicographer, publisher, and spelling reformer.

Welfare minister Isaac Herzog said that the government should not have made the announcement during Biden's visit and that " This is a real embarrassment and now we have to express our apologies for this serious blunder.

' Abd al-Rahman's court physician and minister was Hasdai ben Isaac ibn Shaprut, the patron of Menahem ben Saruq, Dunash ben Labrat, and other Jewish scholars and poets.

In 1773, Isaac Backus, a prominent Baptist minister in New England, observed that when " church and state are separate, the effects are happy, and they do not at all interfere with each other: but where they have been confounded together, no tongue nor pen can fully describe the mischiefs that have ensued.

It was founded in 1819 by Presbyterian minister Isaac L. Anderson for the purpose of furthering education and enlightenment into the West.

Although he was not the first permanent white settler ( that distinction falls to a Baptist minister named Isaac McCoy who arrived in 1825 ), Campau became perhaps the most important settler of Grand Rapids when, in 1831, he bought what is now the entire downtown business district of that city from the federal government for $ 90.

* António Isaac Monteiro, former foreign minister of Guinea-Bissau

Amongst those buried in the graveyard is Rev Isaac Nelson, a Presbyterian minister who was also active in nationalist politics.

Isaac L. Anderson ( 1780 – 1857 ) was a Presbyterian minister and the founder in 1819 of Southern and Western Theological Seminary in Maryville, Tennessee.

Isaac Jan Alexander Gogel ( 10 December 1765, Vught-13 June 1821, Overveen ) was the first minister of finance of the Batavian Republic and the Kingdom of Holland.