Isaac Watts' hymns and the closure of the Puritan era

Puritanism and Evangelicalism are not identical movements. They share much in common, but there are some significant differences. Case in point: one can hardly imagine John Owen (1616‒1683) working closely with various Arminian authors of his day, yet George Whitefield (1714‒1770) was quite happy to so work with John Wesley (1703‒1791)—yes, they did part ways for a period of time in the 1740s, but, through the energies of Sally Wesley (1726‒1822), the wife of Charles (1707‒1788), they reconciled and Whitefield even had Wesley preach his “official” funeral sermon.