WRITER OF THE PSALMS IN THE LANGUAGE OF "THE NEW TESTAMENT," (naming the NAME of our LORD JESUS CHRIST.)
Reaching the ordinary Christian
Though German Lutherans had been singing hymns for 100
years, John Calvin had urged his followers to sing only metrical psalms;
English Protestants had followed Calvin's lead.
Watts's 1707 publication of Hymns and Spiritual Songs
technically wasn't a collection of hymns or metrical psalms, but it was
a collection of consequence. In fact, it contained what would become
some of the most popular English hymns of all time, such as "When I
Survey the Wondrous Cross."
Watts didn't reject metrical psalms; he simply wanted to
see them more impassioned. "They ought to be translated in such a
manner as we have reason to believe David would have composed them if he
had lived in our day," he wrote.
Watts' writing "The Psalms of David," Imitated in the Language of the NEW TESTAMENT, followed in the year 1719. (300 years ago!)
LISTEN TO THE BEAUTIFUL HYMN, by Isaac Watts, ''ALAS, AND DID MY SAVIOUR BLEED.."HERE:
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