Again, Isaac Watts focused on Christianizing hymns; “Let us remember that the very Power of Singing was given to human Nature chiefly for this purpose, that our warmest Affections of Soul might break out into natural or divine Melody, and the Tongue of the Worshipper express his own Heart.”(125-126). It is not that Watts was against metrical psalms but that he simply wanted to see the congregation more impassioned and see “the glorious Things that we Christians have to sing before the Lord”. Watts helped us to understand that when writing any kind of praise form, we should always try to be faithful to the “truth”, the Bible.
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