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Isaac Watts – died
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Isaac Watts – death, Nov. 25, 1748
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“Alas! and Did My Savior Bleed?” (stanzas 1,3,5)
Alas! and did my Savior bleed
And did my Sovereign die?
Would He devote that sacred head
For such a worm as I?
Refrain
At the cross, at the cross where I first saw the light,
And the burden of my heart rolled away,
It was there by faith I received my sight,
And now I am happy all the day!
Was it for crimes that I had done
He groaned upon the tree?
Amazing pity! grace unknown!
And love beyond degree!
Thus might I hide my blushing face
While His dear cross appears,
Dissolve my heart in thankfulness,
And melt my eyes to tears. (Underlining -eab)
Isaac Watts died this day in England, his native land. He is known for many worshipful hymns and, of course for, “Joy to the World.” The average reader may be unaware that Watts also wrote, Logick (1725) Knowledge of the Heavens and Earth (1726) Philosophical Essays (1733) The Improvements of the Mind (1741) all used for decades at Cambridge, Oxford, Harvard, and Yale!
Watts is said to have rhymed so much as a kid that his dad wanted it stopped to which Isaac replied “O father, do some pity take
And I will no more verses make.”
C. S. Lewis – death, Nov. 22, 1963
Posted in philosophy, QQQuaint Quality Quotes, today in history, uncategorized, tagged 1945, 1963, be hatched or go bad, begets, Belfast, Beyond Personality, bird, born 11/29/1898, C S Lewis, Cambridge, Clive Staples Lewis, convert rebellious wills, converted to Jesus Christ, creates, died, died today, egg, God, history, indefinitely, Ireland, jolly sight, Macmillan, Mere Christianity, Miracles, NY, ordinary decent egg, Oxford, perfect, Screwtape Letters, taught, The Chronicles of Narnia, the crucifixion, today in history, utterly real on November 22, 2008| Leave a Comment »
What God begets is God…What God creates is not God.
– C. S. Lewis, Beyond Personality (NY: Macmillan, 1945), 5.
…God has no history. He is too completely and utterly real to have one.
– C. S. Lewis, Beyond Personality (NY: Macmillan, 1945), 17.
When He said, “Be perfect,” He meant it…It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go in indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
– C. S. Lewis, Beyond Personality (NY: Macmillan, 1945), 42.
It cost God nothing, as far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him the crucifixion.
– C. S. Lewis, Beyond Personality (NY: Macmillan, 1945), 55.
Clive Staples Lewis died this date. He had taught at Oxford (1924-1954) and Cambridge (1954-1963) universities. In his early thirties, Lewis was converted to Jesus Christ. He is best known for his children’s classic The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-1956), and for Screwtape Letters, Miracles,and Mere Christianity. Lewis was born 11/29/1898, Belfast, Ireland.