Joseph Hart - Early Life (1712 To About 1732)

Early Life (1712 To About 1732)

Not much is known about Hart's early life due to scanty documentation. Joseph Hart had a good educational upbringing, learning the classic languages (Latin, Hebrew, and Greek) to perfection, which afterwards he taught for a living. Hart spent a lot of his early life translating and writing poetry.

It was in this period of his life that Hart translated Herodian and Phycolides.

Hart writes about his early life in his own autobiography:

"As I had the hapiness of being born of believing parents, I imbibed the sound doctrine of the Gospel from my infancy; nor was I without touches of the heart, checks of the conscience, and meltings of affections, by the secret strivings of God's Spirit within me while very young; but the impressions were not deep, nor the influences lasting, being frequently defaced and quenched by the vanities and vices of childhood and youth.

Hart was brought up to be a good Christian and to praise God, but soon fell into temptation and sinned.