[1] “Dr. Isaac Watts,” a Lecture by Hermann Carlyle, LL.B., seventh minister of the church of which Dr. Watts’ father was for forty-eight years a deacon. [2] It is interesting to remember that Isaac Watts the elder was the first local trustee to Robert Thorner’s munificent bequest, which is now the grandest of all the Southampton charities, and has made the name of Thorner in that town a household word. [3] The soil of Southampton seems to have been favourable to the production of the lyrical faculty, although it is not probable that many of those whose hearts have been stirred by the holy strains of Watts have been acquainted with the melodies of one of the most national of English song-writers, the laureate of sailors, also a townsman of Southampton, Thomas Dibden. [4] See Appendix. [5] Walter Wilson’s “Life of Defoe,” vol. i. pp. 26, 27. [6] “The Improvement of the Mind,” chap. iv. of “Books and Reading.” [7] Afterwards, says Dr. Gibbons, Dr. Daniel Scott. He was a very learned and amiable man. After he had studied under Mr. Jones he removed to Utrecht for further education; there he took the degree of doctor of laws. In the year 1741 he published a new version of St. Matthew’s Gospel, with critical notes, and an examination of Dr. Mills’ various readings. He published, also, in the year 1745, an “Appendix to H. Stephens’ Greek Lexicon,” in two volumes. [8] “History and Antiquities of Stoke Newington.” By William Robinson, LL.D., F.S.A. [9] The interested reader consulting that singular monument of patient and painstaking industry, “The History and Antiquities of Dissenting Churches and Meeting-Houses in London, Westminster, and Southwark,” by Walter Wilson, will probably feel astonishment, not less at their number than at the singular places in which they assembled. [10] Matt. xviii. 20. [11] Originally Mart Lane. [12] “Quarterly Review,” vol. lxxxix. pp. 303, 304. [13] “Ode to Mr. Pinhorne.” Translated by Dr. Gibbons. [14] Lord Lytton, in “Devereux.” [15] “Quarterly Review,” No. 222, April, 1862. Art. Hymnology. [16] “British and Foreign Evangelical Review,” 1865. [17] “The Poet of the Sanctuary,” etc. By Josiah Conder. 1857. [18] “The Psalter and the Hymn Book.” Three Lectures by James Hamilton. [19] See Crosbie’s “History of the English Baptists” (1740), vol. iii. [20] “Quarterly Review,” vol. xxxviii. Art. Psalmody. [21] “Letter to Rev. S. F. Macdonald,” by James Martineau, 1859. [22] “Old Town Folk,” chap. iii. [23] For illustrations of this, see “A Letter to the Rev. Mr. ⸺ or a Gnat destroying the Little Arian Foxes among the Vines,” and part of the “Remains of Dr. Watts’ Clear’d from the Leaves and Rags of Arianism.” [24] See this idea illustrated in “An Essay on the Book of Psalms,” by Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, 1825, and “An Essay on the Literature of the Book of Psalms,” in the “Preachers’ Lantern,” vol. ii. p. 558. [25] Lord Barrington’s “Theological Works,” 3 vols.