Holiness and Happiness

Description

Isaac Watts’s life and thought through history has impacted scores of Christians. Though his hymns are ordinarily considered the center of his genius, Watts was also a pastor, philosopher, and theologian. His entire corpus of writing is richly spiritual and deeply pious. This profile of the man will follow Watts’s flow of thought regarding the nature, foundation, and cultivation of piety. Firstly, by surveying holiness and happiness in Watts’s writings; secondly, by highlighting how Watts theologically grounds piety in the doctrines of sin, Christ, and heaven, and finally, by showing how Watts exhorts the believer to deepen their piety through their love for and knowledge of God.