Isaac Watts; his life and writings, his homes and friends

by Edwin Paxton Hood

INDEX.

• Abney House, old, [223]
• Sir Thomas, [76]
• Academy at Gloucester, the, [25]
• at Stoke Newington, [15]
• Acrostic, an, [7]
• Anecdotes—Blind woman and Watts’ hymns, the, [134];
• Bradbury and Burnet, [191];
• Bradbury and Dr. Watts, [193];
• death of an aged minister, [113];
• Derby (Earl) and the blind woman, [134];
• dying Webster, the, [134];
• giant and pigmy, [248];
• of Luther, [97];
• sceptic defeated, the, [146];
• stonemason’s dream, the, [5];
• text for Queen Anne, a, [202];
• “That the great Dr. Watts?” [247];
• Watts’ (W)hims, [193];
• “What think you of death?” [269];
• Whitefield and Watts, [261]
• Anne’s reign, close of Queen, [209]
• Arianism of Watts’ day, the, [311]
• Artificial poetry, [58]
• Atonement, the poet of the, [108]
• Atterbury, Bishop, [210]
• Augustine, St., on the songs of the Church, [97]
• Barbauld, Mrs., quo., [186]
• Barrington, Lord, [144]
• letter to Watts, [147]
• Baxter on sacred hymns, [100]
• Bendish, Mrs., [136]
• Birth and childhood of Watts, [1]
• Blair’s “Grave,” [215]
• Bookmen, the age of great, [339]
• Bradbury, Thomas, [189], [190];
• and Bishop Burnet, [191];
• and Dr. Watts, [192];
• characteristics, [202];
• Defoe’s reproof to, [189];
• political preacher, [190]
• Bunhill Fields, its associations, [265]
• Bunting, W. M., quo., [223]
• Carey’s tombstone, inscription, [134]
• Carter, Mrs. Elizabeth, [180]
• Caryl’s “Book of Job,” [46]
• Catechism, Watts’, [141]
• Cedar tree and the scythe, the, [37]
• Character of Watts, [248]
• Chauncy, Dr. Isaac, [48]
• Christ, Psalms restored to, [129]
• Classical sentiment, translation, [71]
• Coincidents, table of ([see Appendix])
• Collins, Antony, and Lord Barrington, [146]
• Comet, lines on a, [12]
• Conder, Josiah, quo., [100]
• Controversy between Watts and Bradbury, [194-201]
• Countess of Hertford and Mrs. Rowe, [172];
• and the Rise and Progress of Religion, [167]
• Coward, William, [142]
• Critics, hostile, [111]
• Cromwell, Richard, [80]
• Crucial events, [14]
• Daughters, a group of, [36]
• Death, [259]
• Defoe in the pillory, [208];
• quoted, [15]
• Derby, Earl, and the blind woman, [134]
• Devotion the attribute of Watts’ hymns, [113]
• Dissenters, Shortest way with, [78]
• Doddridge, Dr. Philip, [151]
• Dying, [262]
• Elegy, a lovely, [36]
• England in the times of the last Stuarts, [12]
• England’s history, happiest period of, [206]
• English hymnology, [99]
• Epigram, an, [174], [255]
• Erskine, Ralph, and Watts’ hymns, [122]
• Expression, fervour of, [65]
• Faith, expressions of personal, [117]
• Family, in the Hartopp, [32]
• last of the Hartopp, [38]
• Father, imprisonment of Watts’, [1]
• Fleetwood, General, [35]
• Foster, John, quo., [215]
• Friend, letter to an afflicted, [53]
• Friends, Watts’, [136]
• Fuller, Thomas, on death, [260]
• Gale, Theophilus, [16]
• Gardiner, Colonel, [166]
• Gibbons, Dr., quo., [53], [54], [89], [256], [260], [261]
• Girdlers’ Hall church, [22]
• Gloucester academy, the, [25]
• Glover’s “Leonidas,” [175]
• Grandfather and grandmother of Watts, [4]
• Gunston, Thomas, [220]
• Harris, Robert, quo., [257]
• Hart, Josiah, [20]
• Hartopp, Sir John, [33];
• daughters of, [36]
• Hartopps, last of the, [38]
• Hertford, Countess of, [172];
• friendship with Watts, [174];
• letters, character of, [173];
• letters to Watts, [167], [174], [176], [179], [181], [182];
• modesty, [182];
• poetry, [177], [184]
• Hervey, James, [148];
• letter to Watts, [150]
• Hollis family, the, [51]
• “Horæ Lyricæ,” [57]
• House in French Street, the old, [11];
• old Abney, [223];
• Stoke Newington, [32];
• Theobalds, [79]
• Hughes, John, [20]
• Hymns, Apostolic, [90]
• Hymn, Augustine’s definition of a, [92];
• origin of Watts’ first, [30];
• ? what is a, [93]
• Hymnology, Christian, [91];
• English, [99]
• Industry, mental, [50];
• of Watts, [249]
• Johnson, Dr., quo., [17], [18], [75], [96], [313]
• Jones, Rev. Samuel, [25]
• Jennings, Dr., quo., [272]
• Keble’s “Christian Year,” [89];
• criticism of Watts’ poetry, [103]
• Ken, Bishop, and Watts contrasted, [59]
• Kennedy, Dr., quo., [111]
• Kentish petition, the, [207]
• Knox, A., criticism on Watts, [102]
• Latin, thinking in, [105]
• Letters—Countess of Hertford to Watts, [167], [174], [176], [179], [181], [182];
• Doddridge to Watts, [164];
• Doddridge’s dedicatory, [155];
• Hervey to Watts, [150];
• Jewel to Peter Martyr, [99];
• Lord Barrington to Watts, [147];
• of Enoch Watts, [84];
• Secker to Watts, [25];
• to Amsterdam, [160];
• to an afflicted friend, [53];
• to Bradbury, [195], [197];
• to Doddridge, [153]:
• to Samuel Say, [141];
• to Thomas Rosewell, [139];
• Watts to his father, [6]
• Liddon, Canon, quo., [90]
• Lispings in numbers, [7]
• Logan and Doddridge, [162]
• London in Watts’ day, [42]
• Luther’s songs, [97]
• Macaulay, Lord, quo., [211]
• Mansion, an old family, [32]
• Mark Lane chapel, [54];
• the church in, [46]
• Marot, Clement, [98]
• Martineau, James, quo., [106]
• “Media Vita,” the, [95]
• Messianic version of the Psalms, [126]
• Mind of Watts, seraphic, [308]
• Minories, the, [51]
• Modesty of Watts, [132]
• Montgomery’s estimate of Watts’ hymns, [88]
• Monument to Watts, [271]
• Morton, Rev. Charles, [16]
• Motto, a, [203]
• Mystic, Watts a, [109]
• Nature, Watts’ love of, [63]
• Nights, sleepless, [83]
• Nonconformist, a political, [190]
• service, early, [43]
• Nonconformists of old London, [45]
• Papacy, Watts’ antipathy to, [211]
• Parentage of Watts, [3]
• Parker, Mr., quo., [264], [265]
• Pastor, a youthful, [49]
• Pastor of a London church, [40]
• Persecution, the child of, [2]
• Personal appearance of Watts, [233]
• Personification, a definition of, [60]
• Personifications, a constellation of, [61]
• Perspicuity of Watts, [329]
• Philosophical works of Watts, [315]
• Physical theory of another life, [233]
• Pinhorne, Rev. John, [8]
• Poetry of Watts’ time, [58]
• Poets, imperfections of, [105]
• Polhill, David, [207]
• Pope, a criticism on, [175]
• Portrait of Watts, a, [224]
• Prayer, a beautiful, [309]
• Preacher, Watts as a, [40]
• Precocity, [7]
• Price, Samuel, [54]
• Prose writings, Estimate and summary, [273]
• Psalmless churches, [101]
• Psalms, Watts’, [126]
• Pupil, Watts’, [38]
• Puritan reminiscence, [43]
• “Quarterly Review,” quo., [59]
• Relic, an interesting, [270]
• Resignation in sorrow, [173]
• Watts’, [260]
• Rise and Progress of Religion, etc., [155], [162]
• Rogers, Henry, quo., [306]
• Rogers, Samuel, “Human Life,” characterized, [67]
• Rosewell, Samuel, death of, [138]
• letter to, [139]
• Rowe, Mrs., [173], [187]
• and Dr. Watts, [185]
• Rowe, Thomas, [17], [24]
• Sacheverell mob, doings of the, [209]
• Saltzburgers, the, [213]
• Say, Samuel, [21], [140]
• Schism Bill, the, [209]
• Scott, Dr. Daniel, [26]
• Selborne, Lord, quo., [122]
• Secker, Archbishop, [25]
• Sermons, branching, [306];
• satirized by Watts, [306]
• Shimei Bradbury, [189]
• Shower, John, [138]
• Singing controversy, the, [101]
• Southampton gaol, [2];
• of Watts’ day, [9];
• plague at, [11]
• Southey, Dr., quo., [165]
• Spirit, a meek and quiet, [199]
• Stoke Newington, [218];
• side of life, [67];
• the old house at, [32]
• Storm of 1703, the great, [208]
• Students, Watts’ fellow, [19]
• Study, methods of, [18];
• Watts’, [82]
• Suburb, an old London, [55]
• Theobalds, the old house at, [79]
• Theological works of Watts, [313]
• Theology, nature of Watts’, [109]
• Thomson quo., [172]
• Times of Watts, [206]
• Tunbridge Wells, [250]
• Tutor, Watts as a, [37]
• Unitarians and Watts, the, [106], [313]
• Verse, a perfect, [104]
• Verse, the accident of Watts’ life, [73]
• Verses, satiric, [69]
• Waller quo., [176]
• Walsh and Fletcher, death of, [259]
• Watchwords and Creeds, [115]
• Well, Watts’, [257]
• Wesley, Charles, and Watts contrasted, [124]
• “Wesleyan Magazine” quo., [107]
• Wesleys’ Obligations to Watts, the, [123]
• Words, dying, [262]
• “World to Come” criticised, [226]
• Young, Dr., [216];
• quo., [186]
• Zodiac, signs of the, [72].

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