 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 506των Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | George W. Stroup - 2004 - 210 σελίδες
...parish priest. In addition to "Amazing Grace," Newton also wrote the epitaph engraved on his tombstone. John Newton Clerk Once an Infidel and Libertine A...Slaves 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... | |
 | Mary Baker McQuesten - 2004 - 337 σελίδες
...of St. Mary Woolnoth Church, of which he was for many years Rector: "John Newton once an infidel & libertine. A servant of slaves in Africa, was, by the Rich mercy of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ [?] restored, pardoned & appointed to preach the faith he had long laboured... | |
 | Carol A. Jenkins - 2004 - 276 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." And then he wrote this hymn: Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a... | |
 | Leslie B. Flynn - 2005 - 208 σελίδες
...— A Prayer of King Henry VI •3^> Amazing Grace <Jl/are/i 3O John Newton composed his own epitaph: "John Newton, clerk, once an infidel and libertine,...preach the faith he had long laboured to destroy." In the midst of a violent storm in 1748 the Lord touched Newton's heart. When he applied for ordination... | |
 | Daniel Eddy - 2005 - 508 σελίδες
...former rector. A tablet, bearing an inscription written by himself, reads as follows: "John Newton — once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves...Africa — was, by the rich mercy of our Lord and Savior Jesus .Christ, preserved, restored, pardoned, and appointed to preach the faith he once labored... | |
 | Robert Kevin Brown, Mark R. Norton - 2005 - 396 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 so long labored to destroy." These words were written by Newton himself, a testimony to God's transforming... | |
 | William Petersen, Ardythe Petersen - 2015 - 704 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 so long labored to destroy." Those words were written by John Newton himself, and they are a testimony... | |
 | Jonathan Aitken - 2007 - 400 σελίδες
...inscription on his tomb at Olney and on a commemorative tablet to him at St Mary Woolnoth: JOHN NEWTON ONCE AN INFIDEL AND LIBERTINE A SERVANT OF SLAVES...PREACH THE FAITH HE HAD LONG LABOURED TO DESTROY. This self-description, taken in conjunction with what were almost his last words — "I am a great... | |
 | Hilary Beckles - 2007 - 138 σελίδες
...plaque at St. Mary Woolnoth carried the epitaph which he wrote cementing the nature of his conversion: JOHN NEWTON, Clerk Once an infidel and libertine A...the rich mercy of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, restored, pardoned, and appointed to preach the Gospel which he had long laboured to destroy. He ministered,... | |
 | James Collins - 2007 - 396 σελίδες
...and the story of God's grace in my life. My tombstone above my head reads, "Born 1725, died 1807. A clerk, once an infidel and libertine, a servant of...slaves in Africa, was by the rich mercy of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, preserved, restored, pardoned, and appointed to preach the faith he once long... | |
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