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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 17th-Century Congregationalist Clergy, 18th-Century Congregationalist Clergy, 19th-Century Congregationalist Clergy, 20th-Century Congregationalist Clergy, Lyman Abbott, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, Leonard Bacon, Henry Ward Beecher, Ezra Stiles, Isaac Watts, Jonathan Leavitt, Ashley Day Leavitt, Fred Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: 17th-Century Congregationalist Clergy, 18th-Century Congregationalist Clergy, 19th-Century Congregationalist Clergy, 20th-Century Congregationalist Clergy, Lyman Abbott, John Stevens Cabot Abbott, Leonard Bacon, Henry Ward Beecher, Ezra Stiles, Isaac Watts, Jonathan Leavitt, Ashley Day Leavitt, Fred Nile, Dudley Leavitt, John Lothropp, Charles Leach, Leonard Woolsey Bacon, Lewis Sperry Chafer, John Hoppus, Andrew Reed, Barzillai Quaife, George B. Bacon, Joshua Leavitt, C.I. Scofield, Edward Woolsey Bacon, Reuben Gaylord, Washington Gladden, Thomas Rutherford Bacon, Peter Bulkley, Solomon Spalding, William Lee Bradley, Samuel Cooper, R.A. Torrey, Hedley Bunton, James Godkin, James Sherman, James Strong, John Pye-Smith, Jonathan Dickinson, Eleazar Wheelock, Robert Moffat, Alexander Petrie Campbell, Elijah Kellogg, Charles Beecher, Jeremiah Burroughs, William Salter, John Wise, Asa Mahan, Joseph Barker, Edward Beecher, Aaron Bancroft, Bolton Stafford Bird, John Smith Moffat, Harvey Newcomb, Edward Abbott, Claudius Herrick, James Pierpont, Samuel James Andrews, David Dudley Field I. Excerpt: Isaac Watts (17 July 1674 25 November 1748), is recognised as the "Father of English Hymnody", as he was the first prolific and popular English hymnwriter, credited with some 750 hymns. Many of his hymns remain in active use today and have been translated into many languages. Life Statue of Isaac Watts in Southampton. Born in Southampton, England, in 1674, Watts was brought up in the home of a committed Nonconformist his father, also Isaac Watts, had been incarcerated twice for his controversial views. At King Edward VI School (where one of the houses is now named "Watts" in his honour), he learned Latin, Greek and Hebrew. He displayed a propensity for rhyme at home, driving his Books, , Congregationalist-Clergy-by-Period~~Books-LLC, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<