While you watch the video of session 09e, take this quiz.
Anglicans were conservative Calvinists who sang only from the psalter, so Watts not only contributed strong texts, but helped to propel a new genre.
Dissenters were conservative Calvinists who sang only from the psalter, so Watts not only contributed strong texts, but helped to propel a new genre.
No one in England had thought to create hymns before, except for Benjamin Keach, and no one sang what Keach wrote.
The anthropocentric focus of Watts' hymns heralded a new age of feel-good hymns that would dominate the church music scene for generations to come.
A collection of children's songs
The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration
A treatise on diverse subjects pertaining to the acclimation of psalms and hymns and spiritual songs
The Psalms of David Imitated
How Great is Our God
Alas and did my Saviour bleed
Age to age He stands
Jesus shall reign
When I survey the wondrous cross
Name above all names
I sing the mighty power of God
O God our help in ages past
The Godhead three in one
Joy to the world the Lord is come
Beginning and the end
Psalm 72
Psalm 98
The Apocrypha
The New Testament
The Hymnal for Worship and Celebration
The Bible
The Psalms of David Imitated
Divine Songs Attempted in Easy Language for Children
Once you allow people the freedom of private interpretation, they could fall into heresy.
Hymn singers tended to be uneducated and unrefined, and therefore seemed less godly.
Hymn singers tended to be given to excess and enthusiasm, and therefore seemed to lack self-restraint.
Many hymns were addressed directly to Jesus, rather than the Father.
Many hymns depicted Jesus as being far more personal and compassionate than God the Father was seen as being.