Select Letters of John Newton PB
By: John NewtonProduct Details | |
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Publisher | Banner of Truth |
Year | 2011 |
ISBN | 9781848711402 |
John Newton (1725-1807), sailor, preacher and hymnwriter, was one of the most colourful figures in the great Evangelical Revival of the 18th Century. âOnce an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves in Africa,â he wrote for his own epitaph, âby the rich mercy of Jesus Christ, preserved, restored, pardoned, and appointed to preach the faith he had long laboured to destroyâ. It was through his correspondence that Newton fulfilled his distinctive work as âthe letter writer par excellence of the Evangelical Revivalâ. His grasp of Scripture and deep personal experience, his many friends (among them, George Whitefield, William Cowper and William Wilberforce), his manifold trials, his country pastorate, his strong, clear, idiomatic style â all these factors combined to prepare the author of âHow sweet the Name of Jesus soundsâ, for the exercise of his special gift. These practical letters cover a wide variety of subjects and aim âto conform the believer to Christâ.