In this fascinating little book we get a view into Watt’s life and hymns, and also his writings on various subjects. Here is part of what he writes about Meditation…

How necessary and how useful a practice it is for a Christian to meditate often on the transcendent perfection and worth of the blessed God, to survey His attributes and His grace in Christ Jesus, to keep up in the mind a constant idea of His supreme excellence and frequently to repeat and confirm the choice of Him as our highest hope, our portion and our everlasting good! This will keep the love of God warm at the heart and maintain the divine affection in its primitive life and vigor. But if our idea of the adorable and supreme excellence of God grow faint and feeble and sink lower in the mind; if we lose the sight of His amiable glories, the sense of His amazing love in the gospel. His rich promises and His alluring grace; if our will does not cleave to Him as our chief good and does not live on Him daily as our spring of happiness, we will abate the fervency of this sacred passion and our love to God will grow cold by degrees and suffer great and guilty decays.

Chaper 29: Meditation

Holiness and Happiness – The Piety of Isaac Watts, edited and introduced by W Britt Stokes (Reformation Heritage Books, 2022)