This exemplary song of Isaac Watts has frequently been known as the best psalm in the English language.
One more contemporary of Isaac Watts said of it, “There might be a couple of others similarly incredible, however there is none more noteworthy.”
Every one of the one requirements to do to understand the reality of this assertion is to sing this glorious song. Isaac Watts put together this psalm with respect to the Scriptural reference of Galatians 6:14.
“However, God preclude that I ought to greatness, save in the cross of our Master Jesus Christ, by whom the world is killed unto me, and I unto the world.”
The first title was “Execution to the World by the Cross of Christ.” Later the title was changed to “When I Study the Wondrous Cross.”
Watt’s long lasting desire, as indicated by his own words, was to be a worker to chapels and a partner of Christians. Dr. Watts won and held the hearts of an enormous portion of the English talking world over a significant stretch of years, notwithstanding the way that as a youngster he was serious areas of strength for rarely, in spite of the reality likewise that he had to leave a pastorate due to chronic weakness.
For the last thirty years of his life, he was pretty much an invalid, however committed himself in agreeable and cheerful environmental elements to the composition of large numbers of the wonderful songs, still famous today.
It was a period of extraordinary psalm authors. Watts was a contemporary of Doddridge, the Wesleys, Newton and Cowper.
The magnificent expressions of this profoundly grave psalm are as moving today as when Watts wrote them in 1707.
The song has been set to more than one tune, yet maybe the most famous is that of Edward Mill operator, who composed his music in 1790, a few 42 years after Watts’ demise.