Previous posts for July 17th are here: Peter Schickele; Vince Guaraldi (2019) and Peter Schickele (2020)
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Isaac Watts (17 July 1674 – 25 November 1748) was an English Christian minister (Congregational), hymn writer, theologian, and logician. He wrote the words for some of the most beloved hymns in English.
In Which We Ask the Theological Question…
Watts also introduced a new way of rendering the Psalms in verse for church services, proposing that they be adapted for hymns with a specifically Christian perspective. As Watts put it in the title of his 1719 metrical Psalter, the Psalms should be "imitated in the language of the New Testament." --- Wikipedia
Attend the tale of Isaac Watts
Who thought that congregants should sing.
He scribble hymns, (yes, lots and lots),
Convinced that they were just the thing.
He took the Psalms, which were O.T.,
And cast them in a new perspective.
But was it vain of him that he
Found King David thus defective?
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