RARE 
THE FIRST SET OF CATECHISMS AND PRAYERS
OR THE RELIGION OF LITTLE CHILDREN UNDER SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS OF AGE
BY I . WATTS D.D 
 ISAAC WATTS 
GENUINE ANTIQUE BOOKLET FROM AROUND EARLY 1800s 
MEASURES JUST UNDER 4 X 3 INCH , THIN CARD COVERS WITH 31 PAGES
PUBLISHED BY JOHN AND CHARLES MOZLEY DERBY
HAS SOME OLD STAINING - FOXING BUT NOTHING BAD , SMALL SPLIT AT BOTTOM OF SPINE , BOOK HAS GENERAL AGE AND HANDLING WEAR BUT FOR A BOOK OF THIS AGE IT IS IN GOOD CONDITION , TIGHTLY BOUND ETC
Isaac Watts (17 July 1674 – 25 November 1748) was an English Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician. He was a prolific and popular hymn writer and is credited with some 750 hymns. His works include "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross", "Joy to the World", and "O God, Our Help in Ages Past". He is recognised as the "Godfather of English Hymnody"; many of his hymns remain in use today and have been translated into numerous languages.
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."[3] Besides writing hymns, Isaac Watts was also a theologian and logician, writing books and essays on these subjects. Isaac Watts is credited by many with introducing hymns to the English churches when his Hymns and Spiritual Songs was first published in 1707. They are extensively used today due to his poetic gifts, but also because he interpreted the Old Testament using knowledge of the New. This set an example for later hymn writers. Isaac Watts explained his methods as follows: “Where the Psalmist describes religion by the fear of God, I have often joined faith and love to it. Where he speaks of pardon of sin through the mercies of God, I have added the merits of a Saviour. Where he talks of sacrificing goats and bullocks, I rather mention the sacrifice of Christ, the Lamb of God. When he attends the ark with shouting into Zion, I sing of the ascension of my Saviour into heaven, or His presence in His church on earth. Where he promises abundance of wealth, honor, and long life, I have changed some of these typical blessings for grace, glory, and life eternal, which are brought to light in the Gospel, and promised in the New Testament.”[6]
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