A common sailor at the age of eleven and press-ganged onto a man-of-war at nineteen, John Newton experienced the thrill of action against French warships, the cruel lash of navy discipline for desertion, the loose and blasphemous life of a freethinker, and the pain of an overwhelming love for a girl beyond his reach.
Rejecting God and morality, Newton entered the slave-trade, became a slave himself, and by the age of twenty-three was little removed from the state of a wild animal.
A violent Atlantic storm brought Newton to his knees and to his God. With a changing life and growing faith there followed years as a slave captain and customs man, in the heyday of smuggling, before he entered the ministry.
The author of "Amazing Grace" left hymns and letters that for over two-hundred years have led people to Christ. His story illustrates what God can do with one man preserved Through Many DangersThrough Many Dangers
Brian Edwards is a Christian Author, Lecturer and Teacher based in the United Kingdom. His twenty books include historical biographies, Christian theologies and apologetics. His wider ministry (www.brianedwards.org.uk) includes preaching and lecturing both in the UK and abroad.
Brian Edwards was pastor of an evangelical church in a south west London suburb for twenty-nine years, and then President of the Fellowship of Independent Evangelical Churches from 1995–1998. He is the author of twenty books, and continues a ministry of writing and itinerant preaching and lecturing.
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