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.

* Logic by Isaac Watts Link to a freely available digital copy, digitized by google, with a pdf download available.

In 1836, Combe stood for the chair of Logic at Edinburgh, against two other candidates, Sir William Hamilton and Isaac Taylor ; Hamilton won with 18 votes, against 14 for Taylor.

Former colonial governors of Rhode Island Stephen Hopkins and Samuel Ward, as well as the Reverend Isaac Backus and the Reverend Samuel Stillman, were among those who played an instrumental role in Brown's foundation and later became American revolutionaries.

Isaac grew old and became blind.

" According to Martin Noth, at the Southern Palestinian stage of the growth of the Pentateuch tradition, Isaac became established as one of the biblical patriarchs, but his traditions were receded in the favor of Abraham.

As Isaac aged, he became blind and was uncertain when he would die, so he decided to bestow Esau's birthright upon him.

In this way he became acquainted with Isaac Beeckman, principal of Dordrecht school.

In the late 1930s, John W. Campbell became editor of Astounding Science Fiction, and a critical mass of new writers emerged in New York City in a group called the Futurians, including Isaac Asimov, Damon Knight, Donald A. Wollheim, Frederik Pohl, James Blish, Judith Merril, and others.

In 1850, Colonel Isaac N. Ebey became the first permanent white settler on Whidbey Island, claiming a square mile ( 2. 6 km² ) of prairie with a southern shoreline on Admiralty Inlet.

He became a fellow of the Royal Society and the second Lucasian Professor of Mathematics ( succeeding Isaac Barrow ) at Trinity College, Cambridge.

By 1692, de Moivre became friends with Edmond Halley and soon after with Isaac Newton himself.

Isaac Leopold Rice became the company's first President with Elihu B.

In 1632, Isaac de Razilly became involved, at the request of Cardinal Richelieu, in the colonization of Acadia, by taking possession of the Habitation at Port-Royal ( now Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia ) and developing it into a French colony.

" That same year, two Jimmy Webb songs became hits for the second time with Isaac Hayes ' soulful version of " By the Time I Get to Phoenix " and Waylon Jennings ' Grammy-winning country version of " MacArthur Park ".

The county is named for Isaac Shelby, a soldier in the American Revolution who became the first governor of Kentucky.

In November 1496 after Isaac and his wife spent some time in Pisa, they moved to Vienna and became employed by Emperor Maximilian I.

Isaac later picked up a second-hand guitar, Zac borrowed an old set of drums, and Taylor became the keyboard player of what turned into a garage band.

Isaac Stevens, governor of the Washington Territory, became dissatisfied with McClellan's performance in scouting passes across the Cascade Range.

In 1807, a man named Prudhomme became the first settler of modern Hot Springs, and he was soon joined by John Perciful and Isaac Cates.

Isaac Herring entered the first land in what became Herrin on 4 November 1816, two years before Illinois became a state.

* Isaac P. Gray, born in Pennsylvania, Gray came to Union City as a young adult and became a successful businessman, enmeshing himself in local, state and national politics.

The community of Burtonsville, originally called Burton's, takes its name from Isaac Burton, who in 1825 bought out his siblings ' shares of his father's land and became the major landowner in the area.

In the 1850s Isaac Burton became the first postmaster of the newly-established post office in the vicinity, which operated out of his store at the intersection.

The market, at the intersection of two streets, became especially important after the slave traders Isaac Franklin of Tennessee and John Armfield of Virginia purchased the land in 1823.

The city is named for Isaac Norris, a member of the colonial Pennsylvania legislature who ordered the casting of the state house bell that became known as the Liberty Bell.

Mr. Isaac J. Sheppard became township secretary at that time and served as secretary until his voluntary retirement in 1952.