 JOHN NEWTON, CLERK, Once an infidel and libertine, A servant of slaves in Africa, Was. by the rich mercy of our Lord and Saviour, JESUS CHRIST, Preserved, restored, pardoned, And appointed to preach the faith He had long laboured to destroy, Near sixteen...  London, Past and Present: Its History, Associations, and Traditions - Σελίδα 508των Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Louis Charles Elson - 1910 - 338 σελίδες
...(tr.). JOHN NEWTON, 1725-1807. — His epitaph, written by himself, contains these lines : JOHN XEWTON, Clerk, once an infidel and libertine, a servant of...preach the faith he had long laboured to destroy. His career, therefore, resembles that of Augustine in illustrating "grace abounding to the chief of... | |
 | JAMES S. OGILVY - 1910 - 550 σελίδες
...turned into an electric railway station. A tablet to his memory records that "John Newton, clerk, and once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves...pardoned, and appointed to preach the faith he had so long laboured to destroy." Newton had been a slave dealer and trader, and his friendship with Cowper... | |
 | Charles Sumner Nutter, Wilbur Fisk Tillett - 1911 - 630 σελίδες
...he requested might be put upon a plain marble tablet near the vestry door of his church in London : JOHN NEWTON. Clerk, Once an Infidel and Libertine,...Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, Preserved, restored, and pardoned. And appointed to preach the Faith He had long labored to destroy, Near 16 years at OIney... | |
 | Margaret Emma Tabor - 1924 - 180 σελίδες
...with his own epitaph. He was rector here for twentyeight years, and died in 1807. THE EPITAPH. — " John Newton, Clerk, once an infidel and libertine,...pardoned and appointed to preach the faith he had laboured long to destroy." St. Mary, Woolchurch, which stood where the Mansion House now is, was not... | |
 | Tom Fleming Kinloch - 1928 - 120 σελίδες
...and part of the glorious advent hymn "Lo! He conies with clouds descending" 1 (160). (b) ANGLICAN. "John Newton, clerk. Once an infidel and libertine....preach the faith he Had long laboured to destroy." This epitaph written by his own hand reveals at once the main events in Newton's life, and the essence... | |
 | Kenneth W. Osbeck - 1901 - 292 σελίδες
...infidel and Libertine, a servant of slavers in Africa, was, by the rich mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, preserved, restored, pardoned, and appointed to preach the Faith he had long labored to destroy. " This fitting testimonial, written by Newton himself prior to his death, describes... | |
 | Kenneth W. Osbeck - 1985 - 332 σελίδες
...a refuge. Psalm 48:1, 2, 3 John Newton, clerk, once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slavers in Africa, was by the rich mercy of our Lord and Saviour,...pardoned, and appointed to preach the faith he had long labored to destroy. This fitting testimonial, written by Newton himself prior to his death, describes... | |
 | Donald E. Demaray - 1988 - 412 σελίδες
...himself, inscribed on a plain marble tablet. This epitaph is really a summary of his amazing life: JOHN NEWTON Clerk, Once an Infidel and Libertine,...Preach the Faith He had Long Laboured to Destroy. He Ministered Near XVI . Years as Curate and Vicar of Olney in Bucks. And XXVIII. as Rector of These... | |
 | John Wittich - 1988 - 150 σελίδες
...Newton, on the north wall reads: "Once the servant of slaves, an infidel and libertine, was, by the mercy of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, preserved,...pardoned and appointed to preach the faith he had laboured long to destroy". Best known today as one of the most prolific hymn-writers of the 18th century.... | |
 | Hugh T. Kerr - 1991 - 112 σελίδες
...years before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Newton prepared his own epitaph: John Newton, once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves...preach the faith he had long laboured to destroy. We do not need to know this story in order to participate in singing "Amazing Grace" and in hearing... | |
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