Gilded Grace: Reading Isaac Watts’ “The Lord, Descending from Above”
Isaac Watts does what good hymnists do: he reads Scripture with a pastor’s eye, sings it with a poet’s heart, and hands both back to the congregation with a wink that says, “Now go and live this.” This little hymn is more than pretty verse; it’s a compact sermon on incarnation, law and gospel, atonement,…