The eighteenth century witnessed the introduction of hymn singing into the churches. Until the end of the seventeenth century only the Psalms had been used. This changed when Isaac Watts published his ‘Hymns and Spiritual Songs’ in 1707. In 1719 he published ‘The Psalms of David’, a poetic versification of the Psalms. These two books were published in a single colume as Watts’ ‘Hymns and Psalms’ and became widely used as the century progressed. Watts was described as ‘the first Englishman who set the gospel to music’. Other hymnwriters published as the century progressed. These included Philip Dodderidge (1755), Joseph Hart (1759), Anne Steele (1760), John Newton and William Cowper (1770), Augustus Toplady (1776) and John Berridge (1795).