In this article, Tim Challies shares the story of my favorite hymn, When I Survey the Wondrous Cross, by Isaac Watts:
"It was a daring move when, in 1707, Isaac Watts published his first book of hymns. At that time it was the practice of almost every congregation of the Church of England to sing only Old Testament psalms in their public worship. However, Watts had grown to dislike this because it restricted the Christian from being able to explicitly celebrate in song all those aspects of the gospel that are fulfilled and illuminated in the New Testament... See the rest of the article...
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