The World To Come; or Discourses on the Joys or Sorrows of Departed Souls at Death and the Glory or Terror of The Resurrection. ...

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London: J. M'Gowan 1823. 8vo. Hf calf over marbled paper boards retaining the orig. spine strip. Gilt. (xii 564pp.). With portrait additional illust. title page and two engraved plates. NOTE: An early treatise on logic and memory by Isaac Watts acclaimed minister of the Church of Christ non-conformist religious scholar music composer and the 'father of English hymnody'. From an early age Watts showed promise in the area of prose and rhetoric composing many famous hymns one of which is the famous hymn 'Joy to the World'.