joseph hart: (1712-1768), eighteenth-century hymnody, and the british evangelical movement

＂The picture that emerges about Hart is one of a quintessential British evangelical of the eighteenth century. Hart’s story brings together the striking combinations of evangelicalism: orthodox in beliefs and experimental in piety, evangelistic in preaching Christ crucified and compassionate in caring for the poor, renouncing legalism to flee to the righteousness of Christ alone and eschewing antinomianism to follow Christ in obedience to God’s commandments, doctrinal in all his devotion and doxological in all his theology.＂ - Joel R. Beeke, Chancellor, Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary