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The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D.

Containing, besides his Sermons, and Essays on miscellaneous subjects, several additional pieces, Selected from his Manuscripts by the Rev. Dr. Jennings, and the Rev. Dr. Doddridge, in 1753: to which are prefixed, memoirs of the life of the author, compiled by the Rev. George Burder. In six volumes

Watts, Isaac (1674-1748)

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ON READING DR. WATTS'S POEMS SACRED TO PIETY AND DEVOTION.

TO DR. WATTS, On his Poems sacred to Devotion.

TO DR. WATTS, On reading his Horæ Lyricæ.

TO DR. WATTS, On his Divine Poems.

TO DR. WATTS, On the Fifth Edition of his Horæ Lyricæ.

I.

BOOK I. SACRED TO DEVOTION AND PIETY.

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II.

BOOK II. SACRED TO VIRTUE, HONOUR AND FRIENDSHIP.

TO HER MAJESTY.

TO JOHN LOCKE, ESQ.

TO JOHN SHUTE, ESQ. (NOW LORD BARRINGTON.)

TO MR. WILLIAM NOKES.

TO NATHANIEL GOULD, ESQ. (NOW SIR NATHANIEL GOULD.)

TO DR. THOMAS GIBSON.

False Greatness.

TO MR. T. BRADBURY.

Strict Religion very rare.

TO MR. C. AND S. FLEETWOOD.

TO WILLIAM BLACKBOURN, ESQ.

TO THE MUCH HONOURED MR. THOMAS ROWE, THE DIRECTOR OF MY YOUTHFUL STUDIES.

TO THE REV. MR. BENONI ROWE.

TO THE REV. MR. JOHN HOWE.

The Disappointment and Relief.

The Hero's School of Morality.

On Mr. Locke's Annotations upon several Parts of the New Testament, left behind him at his Death.

The Adventurous Muse.

TO MR. NICHOLAS CLARK.

The Afflictions of a Friend.

The Reverse; or, the Comforts of a Friend.

TO THE RIGHT HON. JOHN LORD CUTS, At the Siege of Namur.

Burning several Poems of Ovid, Martial, Oldham, Dryden, &c.

TO MRS. B. BENDISH.

Few Happy Matches.

TO DAVID POLHILL, ESQ.

The celebrated Victory of the Poles over Osman, the Turkish Emperor, in the Dacian Battle.

The Indian Philosopher.

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TO DAVID POLHILL, ESQ.

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II.

To the Discontented and Unquiet.

TO JOHN HARTOPP, ESQ. (NOW SIR JOHN HARTOPP, BART.)

TO THOMAS GUNSTON, ESQ.

TO JOHN HARTOPP, ESQ. (NOW SIR JOHN HARTOPP, BART.)

TO MITIO, MY FRIEND.

ON THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, Just after Mr. Dryden. 1700.

AN EPIGRAM OF MARTIAL TO CIRINUS.

TO MRS. SINGER. (NOW MRS. ROWE.)

III.

BOOK III. SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD.

RELIQUIÆ JUVENILES.

REMNANTS OF TIME EMPLOYED, IN PROSE AND VERSE;

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HYMN 117. (L. M.) Election sovereign and free, Rom. ix. 21–23, 20.

I

Behold the potter and the clay,
He forms his vessels as he please:
Such is our God, and such are we,
The subjects of his high decrees.

II

Doth not the workman's power extend
O'er all the mass, which part to choose
And mould it for a nobler end,
And which to leave for viler use?

III

May not the sovereign Lord on high
Dispense his favours as he will,
Choose some to life while others die,
And yet be just and gracious still?

IV

What if to make his terror known,
He lets his patience long endure,
Suffering vile rebels to go on
And seal their own destruction sure!

V

What if he means to shew his grace,
And his electing love employs
To mark out some of mortal race,
And form them fit for heavenly joys!

VI

Shall man reply against the Lord,
And call his Maker's ways unjust,
The thunder of whose dreadful word
Can crush a thousand worlds to dust?

VII

But, O my soul, if truths so bright
Should dazzle and confound thy sight,
Yet still his written will obey,
And wait the great decisive day.

VIII

Then shall he make his justice known,
And the whole world before his throne
With joy or terror shall confess
The glory of his righteousness.