Life Times And Correspondence of the Rev Isaac Watts Dd
Life Times And Correspondence of the Rev Isaac Watts Dd
Thomas Milner
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" The private approval of Dr. Watts having been obtained, and the public sanction of a general meeting of ministers at Lutter- worth, April 10th, 1729, Doddridge commenced his labours as a theological tutor, which brought him into frequent corres- pondence with the subject of this memoir. It must have been towards the close of the year 1728, that Dr. Watts published his " Book of Catechisms. " In 1727 a request was made to him by Sir Gilbert Elliot, to undertake the composition of a catechism; ...in April, 1728, we find him writing to Mr. Say in answer to a similar wish, that several schemes were already drawn out for the purpose ; and in 1729 a discourse on catechetical instruction appeared, connected with a second edition of the catechisms. The attention paid by the early nonconformists to the scrip- tural instruction of the young was most exemplary, and formed in some cases the most laborious part of pastoral duty. Of the Rev. John Ratcliffe, pastor of the presbyterian church, Jamaica Row, Rotherhithe, from 1705 to 1708, his biogra- pher relates, " He entirely devoted every Monday, from five in the morning to eight at night, for the several parts of the work.
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