WATTS. HE vems Dr. Wuts were, by my recommendation. serted i reate colection: he readers of which are te Pace o de Tatever measure or weariness they may #ze versa » Blues.nore. Wats, Pomfret, and Yakis Same Vuis was born Jiv 17. 1674, at Southampt where as later, i ne same name, kept a boarding-schfr varg pauemen, 'hough common report makes him. Ze moeurs, from the narrative of Dr. GA, Jons, o sve keen le der ndigent nor illiterate. Isuse, he quest of nine cuiidren, was given to boci from ns mancy, md begin, we are told, to learn Lat when he was bur years nd, I suppose, at home. He va ervaris mugit Laun, Greek, and Hebrew, by Mr. P jorn, a derry'nan, muster of the free-school at South umpion, a wom the graicade of his scholar afterward serbed a Larn nie. Es proficiency at senool was so conspicuous, that a subEruca vis Amused for his support at the university but ne fecured is resolution of taking his lot with the issenters. Sact he was as every christian church would He, therefore, repaired, in 1600, to an academy taught by Mr. Rowe, where he had for his companions and fellowstuden's Mr. Eries the poet, and Dr. Horte, afterwards arenoisacy of Tram. Some Latin essays, supposed to have been written as exercises at this academy, show a degree of knowledge, both philosophical and theological, such as very few attain by a much longer course of study. to He was, as he hints in his Miscellanies, a maker of verses from fifteen to fifty, and, in his youth, appears have paid attention to Latin poetry. His verses to his brother, in the glyconick measure, written when he was seventeen, are remarkably easy and elegant. Some of other odes are deformed by the Pindarick folly then vailing, and are written with such neglect of all metrical ..s, as is without example among the ancients; but his tion, though, perhaps, not always exactly pure, has h copiousness and splendour, as shows that he was but ery little distance from excellence. His method of study was to impress the contents of his oks upon his memory by abridging them, and by interving them to amplify one system with supplements >m another. With the congregation of his tutor Mr. Rowe, who ere, I believe, independents, he communicated in his neteenth year. At the age of twenty he left the academy, and spent wo years in study and devotion at the house of his father, vho treated him with great tenderness; and had the hap›iness, indulged to few parents, of living to see his son eminent for literature, and venerable for piety. He was then entertained by sir John Hartopp five years, as domestick tutor to his son: and in that time particularly devoted himself to the study of the holy scriptures; and, being chosen assistant to Dr. Chauncey, preached the first time on the birthday that completed his twentyfourth year; probably considering that as the day of a second nativity, by which he entered on a new period of existence. In about three years he succeeded Dr. Chauncey; but, soon after his entrance on his charge, he was seized by a dangerous illness, which sunk him to such weakness, that the congregation thought an assistant necessary, and appointed Mr. Price. His health then returned gradually; and he performed his duty till, 1712, he was seized by a fever of such violence and continuance, that from the feebleness which it brought upon him he never perfectly recovered. This calamitous state made the compassion of his friends necessary, and drew upon him the attention of sir Thomas Abney, who received him into his house; where, with a af İnamusing and uniformity of conduct not on, be vas reated for thirty-six years with stat fenisaip could prompt, and all but ascect euad Getate. Sir Thomas dvas tervaris: but he continued with Magers a te end of his life. The lar DE ATK ider um. malca İke us a state in which the notions IX ASTIN sall be made upon that r and revdence which brought the doctor int: Chins Liner's Samly, and continued him there til LS DEAL, A DECut if no less than thirty-six years. In th must of us sati ubers for the glory of God, and good f us garcon, he is seized with a most violent an araang fere vich leaves him oppressed with gree PRIATESS, MĚ Hts a stup, at least, to his publick service jie jour years las distressing season, doubly so is are and pares sperit, he is invited to sir Thoma Anner's famis. c ever removes from it till he had finish et us is Here be enjoyed the uninterrupted demosstuves df de trest friendship. Here, without any care để his own, he had every thing which could contribute to the enjoyment offe, and favour the unwearied pursuits of its studies... Here he dwelt in a family, which for piety, order, harmony, and every virtue, was an house of God. Here he had the privilege of a country recess, the fragrant bower, the spreading lawn, the flowery garden, and other i advantages, to sooth his mind, and aid his restoration to health; to yield him, whenever he chose them, most grateful intervals from his laborious studies, and enable him to return to them with redoubled vigour and delight. Had it not been for this most happy event, he might, as to ward view, have feebly, it may be painfully, dragged through many more years of languor, and inability for blick service, and even for profitable study, or, perhaps, ght have sunk into his grave under the overwhelming ad of infirmities in the midst of his days; and thus the urch and world would have been deprived of those many :cellent sermons and works, which he drew up and pub:hed during his long residence in this family. In a few ears after his coming hither, sir Thomas Abney dies; but is amiable consort survives, who shows the doctor the ime respect and friendship as before, and most happily or him and great numbers besides; for, as her riches vere great, her generosity and munificence were in full roportion; her thread of life was drawn out to a great ige, even beyond that of the doctor's; and thus this excellent man, through her kindness, and that of her daughter, the present Mrs. Elizabeth Abney, who in a like degree esteemed and honoured him, enjoyed all the benefits and felicities he experienced at his first entrance into this family, till his days were numbered and finished; and, like a shock of corn in its season, he ascended into the regions of perfect and immortal life and joy." If this quotation has appeared long, let it be considered that it comprises an account of six-and-thirty years, and those the years of Dr. Watts. From the time of his reception into this family, his life was no otherwise diversified than by successive publications. The series of his works I am not able to deduce; their number and their variety show the intenseness of his industry, and the extent of his capacity. He was one of the first authors that taught the dissenters to court attention by the graces of language. Whatever they had among them before, whether of learning or acuteness, was commonly obscured and blunted by coarseness, and inelegance of style. He showed them, that zeal and purity might be expressed and enforced by polished diction. He continued to the end of his life the teacher of a C 19 Tra le testended to y De mother, mi de v Silva, a Scens of ascertion, adapt eth her TRIE B Cues im ze dawn of re2905, bone is grataions natace a de morning of life. Every man semantei vua ne common principles of br man action, vil ons vi veneration on the writer, who is at que fime combating Laexe, and at another making a |