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Title: Psalm XV. Religion & justice, goodness, & truth, or the duties to God, or
the qualities of a Christian
Author: Watts, Isaac
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 1719 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 15
Title: Psalm CXXXIX. God is everywhere
Author: Watts, Isaac
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 1719 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 139. Lacks stanzas 7 and 8.
Title: Psalm XXIII. God our sheepherd
Author: Watts, Isaac
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 1719 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Religious poem in praise of God as mankind's protector, comforter and guide,
paraphrasing Psalm 23. At end, "Great Forster's, 26th February 1740/1".
Title: The happy pair
Author: Watts, Isaac
Date(s): 1701
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: Defining the basis of a truly happy marriage as being mutual friendship,
kindness and love. Lacks two stanzas. At end, "26th February 1740/1".
Title: [unknown]
Author: Watts, Isaac
Attribution: Dr Watts
Date(s): 1715 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 53
Contents: The first stanza of Watts's "Innocent play", here included in Coles's prose
autobiography
Title: The Last Judgment. Psalm's the 50.
Author: Watts, Isaac
Attribution: Doctor Watts; [Bible]
Date(s): 1719 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem on the Day of Judgement, paraphrasing Psalm 50
Title: The Last Judgment
Author: Watts, Isaac
Attribution: [Doctor Watts]; [Bible]
Date(s): 1719 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 45
Contents: Religious poem on the Day of Judgement, paraphrasing Psalm 50
Title: [unknown]
Author: Watts, Isaac
Attribution: Watts Hor. Lyr.
Date(s): 1709 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 59
Contents: On the flight of Urania, muse of poetry; the first stanza of Isaac Watts's
"The adventurous muse", from the 2nd edition of "Horae Lyricae", II, here used
as epigraph to Joseph Mitchell's "The transport" (BCMSV 2353).
Title: The day of judgment
Author: Watts, Isaac
Attribution: Watts, Hor. Lyr. l.1 p.82
Date(s): 1706 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Religious poem, comparing the Day of Judgement to a storm at
sea, and imagining in detail its terrors for the guilty
Title: The hardy soldier
Author: Watts, Isaac
Attribution: Watts, Hor. Lyr. to the Right honorable John Lord Cutts at the
Date(s): 1706 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Criticism of men's desire to rush to death in battle, leading to
damnation, compared with calm and considered valour, leading to
heaven
Title: Few happy matches
Author: Watts, Isaac
Attribution: Watts, Hor. Lyr. l.2, p.224, 171 (?)
Date(s): 1701
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Defining the basis of a truly happy marriage as mutual
friendship, kindness and love
Title: Psalm CIII.8-18, 2nd part. God's gentile chastisement; or, His tender mercy
to his people. Long metre
Author: Watts, Isaac
Attribution: [Bible]
Date(s): 1719 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 24
Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing Psalm 103. At end, "Great Forster's, 21
November 1736".