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“Sweet is the day of sacred rest" [Psalm 92 paraphrase], in The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament”

"Sweet is the day of sacred rest" [Psalm 92 paraphrase], in The Psalms of David Imitated in the Language of the New Testament (1719) Inferred

Isaac Watts (1674–1748) · 1719

InferredFuller places "sweet day of sacred rest" in quotation marks, citing the opening line of Isaac Watts's hymn "Sweet is the day of sacred rest," a paraphrase of Psalm 92 published in his 1719 *Psalms of David*.

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Letter to Elizabeth Hoar

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“Sunday is my only day of peace, and how often, as in Providence, have I blest again and again the "sweet day of sacred rest.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. III. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986.

Inferred Fuller places "sweet day of sacred rest" in quotation marks, citing the opening line of Isaac Watts's hymn "Sweet is the day of sacred rest," a paraphrase of Psalm 92 published in his 1719 Psalms of David.