Select Letters of John Newton
By John Newton.
Description
John Newton (1725-1807), sailor, preacher and hymnwriter, was one of the most colourful figures in the great Evangelical Revival of the 18th Century. Once an infidel andlibertine, a servant of slaves in Africa, he wrote for his own epitaph, by the rich mercy of Jesus Christ, preserved, restored, pardoned, andappointed to preach the faith he had long laboured to destroy .It was through his correspondence that Newton fulfilled his distinctivework as the letter writer par excellence of the Evangelical Revival . His grasp of Scripture and deep personal experience, his many friends (among them, ...
ISBN(s)
1848711409, 9781848711402
