 | Thomas Smyth - Presbyterian Church - 1911 - 750 pages
...have mentioned his treatises of Theology as distinct from his other productions : but the truth is, that whatever he took in hand, was, by his incessant solicitude for souls, converted to Theology. As piety predominated in his mind, it is diffused over his works : under his direction it may be truly... | |
 | David Guy Fountain - Biography & Autobiography - 1978 - 124 pages
...philosophical essays is to point out his fallacies, correct his 86 Justly does Dr. Johnson remark, "Whatever he took in hand was, by his incessant solicitude for souls, converted to theology. As piety predominated in his mind, it is diffused over his works: under his direction it may be truly... | |
 | Catherine Neal Parke - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 212 pages
...present chapter is best summarized in Johnson's description of Isaac Watts's effect on the reader: Whatever he took in hand was, by his incessant solicitude for souls, converted to Theology. As piety predominated in his mind, it diffused over his works. ... it is difficult to read a page without... | |
 | Amal Asfour, Dr Paul Williamson, Paul Williamson - Art - 1999 - 360 pages
...noted the comprehensiveness of Watts's approach as well as his commitment to traditional Christianity: 'Whatever he took in hand was, by his incessant solicitude for souls, converted to theology', while 'Under his direction ... philosophy is subservient to evangelical instruction'. 72 Watts's Improvement... | |
 | Alan P. F. Sell, Kenneth Dix, Alan Ruston - Religion - 2006 - 496 pages
...have mentioned his treatises of theology as distinct from his other productions; but the truth is, that whatever he took in hand, was, by his incessant solicitude for souls, converted to theology. As piety predominated in his mind it is diffused over his works: under his direction it may be truly... | |
 | James Robert Boyd, Philip Doddridge - Doddridge, Philip (1702-1751) - 1860 - 486 pages
...regard to Dr. Watts, ' that as piety predominated in his mind, it was diffused over his works, and that whatever he took in hand was, by his incessant solicitude for souls, converted to theology,' may with equal propriety be applied to Dr. Docldridge." It has been already shown what uncommon pains... | |
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I have mentioned his treatises of Theology as distinct from his other productions, but the truth is that whatever he took in hand was, by his incessant solicitude for souls, converted to Theology. 
