 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
 | Kenneth W. Osbeck - 180 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." Reader 1: Until the time of his death at the age of 82, John Newton never ceased... | |
 | LindaJo H. McKim - 1993 - 436 σελίδες
...Cowper (see hymn 270) were responsible for Olney Hymns (1779). Newton wrote his own epitaph which reads: JOHN NEWTON CLERK ONCE AN INFIDEL AND LIBERTINE A...AFRICA WAS BY THE RICH MERCY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JF.SUS CHRIST PRESERVED, RESTORED, PARDONED, AND APPOINTED TO PREACH THE FAITH HE HAD LONG LABORED... | |
 | LindaJo H. McKim - 1993 - 436 σελίδες
...(1779). Newton wrote his own epitaph which reads: JOHN NEWTON CLERK ONCE AN INFIDEL AND LIBP.RTINE A SERVANT OF SLAVES IN AFRICA WAS BY THE RICH MERCY OF OUR LORD AND SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST PRF.SERVED, RESTORED, PARDONED, AND APPOINTED TO PREACH THE FAITH HE HAD LONG LABORED TO DESTROY The... | |
 | William J. Petersen, Randy Petersen - 1995 - 772 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... | |
 | Richard M. Hannula - 1999 - 304 σελίδες
...that Christ is a great Savior." He wrote the words that later appeared on his gravestone: John Newton Once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves...pardoned, and appointed to preach the faith He had long labored to destroy. At the age of eighty-two, John Newton died. His remarkably changed life and his... | |
 | Kenneth W. Osbeck - 116 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." Until the time of his death at the age of eighty-two, John Newton never ceased... | |
 | T. Richard Snyder - 2001 - 176 σελίδες
...grace. The epitaph he wrote for his own funeral captures the drama of the transformation in his life. John Newton clerk Once an Infidel and Libertine A...preach the Faith He had long laboured to destroy.' Written in the late 1700's, "Amazing Grace" was perhaps his most moving testimony to the transformation... | |
 | Douglas Bond - 1999 - 260 σελίδες
...the cool grass to a large marble gravestone in the back corner of the churchyard. Drew read aloud: "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... | |
 | William E. Phipps - 2001 - 306 σελίδες
...were also charged that if any epitaph tablet were erected, the permitted text should be only this: JOHN NEWTON, CLERK ONCE AN INFIDEL AND LIBERTINE,...PARDONED, AND APPOINTED TO PREACH THE FAITH HE HAD LONG LABORED TO DESTROY. This inscription in marble can still be seen by the St. Mary Woolnoth pulpit. Newton's... | |
 | Craig Steven Wilder - 2002 - 356 σελίδες
...elements until his death; in fact, both were the subjects of the epitaph that he wrote for himself: JOHN NEWTON, Clerk Once an Infidel and Libertine,...pardoned, And appointed to preach the Faith, (He had long labored to destroy,) Near sixteen years at Olney, in Bucks, And . . . years in this church. The Reverend... | |
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