INDEX.

Abney House, old, 223

Sir Thomas, 76

Academy at Gloucester, the, 25

at Stoke Newington, 15

Acrostic, an, 7

Anecdotes—Blind woman and Watts’ hymns, the, 134;

Bradbury and Burnet, 191;

Bradbury and Dr. Watts, 193;

death of an aged minister, 113;

Derby (Earl) and the blind woman, 134;

dying Webster, the, 134;

giant and pigmy, 248;

of Luther, 97;

sceptic defeated, the, 146;

stonemason’s dream, the, 5;

text for Queen Anne, a, 202;

“That the great Dr. Watts?” 247;

Watts’ (W)hims, 193;

“What think you of death?” 269;

Whitefield and Watts, 261

Anne’s reign, close of Queen, 209

Arianism of Watts’ day, the, 311

Artificial poetry, 58

Atonement, the poet of the, 108

Atterbury, Bishop, 210

Augustine, St., on the songs of the Church, 97

Barbauld, Mrs., quo., 186

Barrington, Lord, 144

letter to Watts, 147

Baxter on sacred hymns, 100

Bendish, Mrs., 136

Birth and childhood of Watts, 1

Blair’s “Grave,” 215

Bookmen, the age of great, 339

Bradbury, Thomas, 189, 190;

and Bishop Burnet, 191;

and Dr. Watts, 192;

characteristics, 202;

Defoe’s reproof to, 189;

political preacher, 190

Bunhill Fields, its associations, 265

Bunting, W. M., quo., 223

Carey’s tombstone, inscription, 134

Carter, Mrs. Elizabeth, 180

Caryl’s “Book of Job,” 46

Catechism, Watts’, 141

Cedar tree and the scythe, the, 37

Character of Watts, 248

Chauncy, Dr. Isaac, 48

Christ, Psalms restored to, 129

Classical sentiment, translation, 71

Coincidents, table of (see Appendix)

Collins, Antony, and Lord Barrington, 146

Comet, lines on a, 12

Conder, Josiah, quo., 100

Controversy between Watts and Bradbury, 194-201

Countess of Hertford and Mrs. Rowe, 172;

and the Rise and Progress of Religion, 167

Coward, William, 142

Critics, hostile, 111

Cromwell, Richard, 80

Crucial events, 14

Daughters, a group of, 36

Death, 259

Defoe in the pillory, 208;

quoted, 15

Derby, Earl, and the blind woman, 134

Devotion the attribute of Watts’ hymns, 113

Dissenters, Shortest way with, 78

Doddridge, Dr. Philip, 151

Dying, 262

Elegy, a lovely, 36

England in the times of the last Stuarts, 12

England’s history, happiest period of, 206

English hymnology, 99

Epigram, an, 174, 255

Erskine, Ralph, and Watts’ hymns, 122

Expression, fervour of, 65

Faith, expressions of personal, 117

Family, in the Hartopp, 32

last of the Hartopp, 38

Father, imprisonment of Watts’, 1

Fleetwood, General, 35

Foster, John, quo., 215

Friend, letter to an afflicted, 53

Friends, Watts’, 136

Fuller, Thomas, on death, 260

Gale, Theophilus, 16

Gardiner, Colonel, 166

Gibbons, Dr., quo., 53, 54, 89, 256, 260, 261

Girdlers’ Hall church, 22

Gloucester academy, the, 25

Glover’s “Leonidas,” 175

Grandfather and grandmother of Watts, 4

Gunston, Thomas, 220

Harris, Robert, quo., 257

Hart, Josiah, 20

Hartopp, Sir John, 33;

daughters of, 36

Hartopps, last of the, 38

Hertford, Countess of, 172;

friendship with Watts, 174;

letters, character of, 173;

letters to Watts, 167, 174, 176, 179, 181, 182;

modesty, 182;

poetry, 177, 184

Hervey, James, 148;

letter to Watts, 150

Hollis family, the, 51

“Horæ Lyricæ,” 57

House in French Street, the old, 11;

old Abney, 223;

Stoke Newington, 32;

Theobalds, 79

Hughes, John, 20

Hymns, Apostolic, 90

Hymn, Augustine’s definition of a, 92;

origin of Watts’ first, 30;

? what is a, 93

Hymnology, Christian, 91;

English, 99

Industry, mental, 50;

of Watts, 249

Johnson, Dr., quo., 17, 18, 75, 96, 313

Jones, Rev. Samuel, 25

Jennings, Dr., quo., 272

Keble’s “Christian Year,” 89;

criticism of Watts’ poetry, 103

Ken, Bishop, and Watts contrasted, 59

Kennedy, Dr., quo., 111

Kentish petition, the, 207

Knox, A., criticism on Watts, 102

Latin, thinking in, 105

Letters—Countess of Hertford to Watts, 167, 174, 176, 179, 181, 182;

Doddridge to Watts, 164;

Doddridge’s dedicatory, 155;

Hervey to Watts, 150;

Jewel to Peter Martyr, 99;

Lord Barrington to Watts, 147;

of Enoch Watts, 84;

Secker to Watts, 25;

to Amsterdam, 160;

to an afflicted friend, 53;

to Bradbury, 195, 197;

to Doddridge, 153:

to Samuel Say, 141;

to Thomas Rosewell, 139;

Watts to his father, 6

Liddon, Canon, quo., 90

Lispings in numbers, 7

Logan and Doddridge, 162

London in Watts’ day, 42

Luther’s songs, 97

Macaulay, Lord, quo., 211

Mansion, an old family, 32

Mark Lane chapel, 54;

the church in, 46

Marot, Clement, 98

Martineau, James, quo., 106

“Media Vita,” the, 95

Messianic version of the Psalms, 126

Mind of Watts, seraphic, 308

Minories, the, 51

Modesty of Watts, 132

Montgomery’s estimate of Watts’ hymns, 88

Monument to Watts, 271

Morton, Rev. Charles, 16

Motto, a, 203

Mystic, Watts a, 109

Nature, Watts’ love of, 63

Nights, sleepless, 83

Nonconformist, a political, 190

service, early, 43

Nonconformists of old London, 45

Papacy, Watts’ antipathy to, 211

Parentage of Watts, 3

Parker, Mr., quo., 264, 265

Pastor, a youthful, 49

Pastor of a London church, 40

Persecution, the child of, 2

Personal appearance of Watts, 233

Personification, a definition of, 60

Personifications, a constellation of, 61

Perspicuity of Watts, 329

Philosophical works of Watts, 315

Physical theory of another life, 233

Pinhorne, Rev. John, 8

Poetry of Watts’ time, 58

Poets, imperfections of, 105

Polhill, David, 207

Pope, a criticism on, 175

Portrait of Watts, a, 224

Prayer, a beautiful, 309

Preacher, Watts as a, 40

Precocity, 7

Price, Samuel, 54

Prose writings, Estimate and summary, 273

Psalmless churches, 101

Psalms, Watts’, 126

Pupil, Watts’, 38

Puritan reminiscence, 43

“Quarterly Review,” quo., 59

Relic, an interesting, 270

Resignation in sorrow, 173

Watts’, 260

Rise and Progress of Religion, etc., 155, 162

Rogers, Henry, quo., 306

Rogers, Samuel, “Human Life,” characterized, 67

Rosewell, Samuel, death of, 138

letter to, 139

Rowe, Mrs., 173, 187

and Dr. Watts, 185

Rowe, Thomas, 17, 24

Sacheverell mob, doings of the, 209

Saltzburgers, the, 213

Say, Samuel, 21, 140

Schism Bill, the, 209

Scott, Dr. Daniel, 26

Selborne, Lord, quo., 122

Secker, Archbishop, 25

Sermons, branching, 306;

satirized by Watts, 306

Shimei Bradbury, 189

Shower, John, 138

Singing controversy, the, 101

Southampton gaol, 2;

of Watts’ day, 9;

plague at, 11

Southey, Dr., quo., 165

Spirit, a meek and quiet, 199

Stoke Newington, 218;

side of life, 67;

the old house at, 32

Storm of 1703, the great, 208

Students, Watts’ fellow, 19

Study, methods of, 18;

Watts’, 82

Suburb, an old London, 55

Theobalds, the old house at, 79

Theological works of Watts, 313

Theology, nature of Watts’, 109

Thomson quo., 172

Times of Watts, 206

Tunbridge Wells, 250

Tutor, Watts as a, 37

Unitarians and Watts, the, 106, 313

Verse, a perfect, 104

Verse, the accident of Watts’ life, 73

Verses, satiric, 69

Waller quo., 176

Walsh and Fletcher, death of, 259

Watchwords and Creeds, 115

Well, Watts’, 257

Wesley, Charles, and Watts contrasted, 124

“Wesleyan Magazine” quo., 107

Wesleys’ Obligations to Watts, the, 123

Words, dying, 262

“World to Come” criticised, 226

Young, Dr., 216;

quo., 186

Zodiac, signs of the, 72.

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