Category: Watts, Isaac
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Sin Has a Thousand Treach’rous Arts
Sin has a thousand treach’rous arts To practise on the mind; With flatt’ring looks she tempts our hearts, But leaves a sting behind. With names of virtue she deceives The aged and the young; And while the heedless wretch believes, She makes his fetters strong. She pleads for all the…
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Am I Elect?
Good counsel from George Whitefield concerning ascertaining whether one is of the elect– That great man, Dr. Isaac Watts, who was called the sweet singer of Israel, says, ‘We should go first to the grammar school of faith and repentance, before we go to the university of predestination.’ Whereas the…