Watts played a vital role in the evolution and creativity of hymnody as we know it today.
You Raise Me Up, So I Can Stand On Mountains You Raise Me Up, To Walk On Stormy Seas I Am Strong, When I Am On Your Shoulders You Raise Me Up To More Than I Can Be. He thought that hymns should be freely composed and not just hold to the letter of Scripture and that hymns should give straightforward expression to the thoughts and feelings of the singers and not merely recall events of the distant past. When I Am Down And, Oh My Soul, So Weary When Troubles Come And My Heart Burdened Be Then, I Am Still And Wait Here In The Silence Until You Come And Sit Awhile With Me.
He believed that hymns should echo the theme of the sermon and insisted that songs in the church should be amply evangelical and not just additives to the Psalms. You Raise Me Up Lyrics: When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary / When troubles come and my heart burdened be / Then, I am still and wait here in the. Watts’ hymns include theology in a format that is well suited for congregational singing. When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary When troubles come and my heart burdened be Then, I am still and wait here in the silence, Until you come and sit awhile with me. His 600 hymns found in seven collections made the transition from stringent, metrical psalmody to liberated, theologically-based hymnody. But by the time of his death, he had developed a style of a much more complex hymnody. When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary When troubles come and my heart burdened be Then, I am still and wait here in the silence, Until you come and sit awhile with me.You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas I am strong, when I am on your shoulders You raise me up: To more than I can be. The Story Behind When I Survey the Wondrous CrossĪt the time of Isaac Watts' early years, churches in England sang only metrical psalms.
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