Nesta exposição John Newton nos mostra o infeliz estado do homem após a Queda.
“Ouvimos falar muito nos dias de hoje da dignidade da natureza humana. É bem verdade que o homem era uma excelente criatura como ele saiu das mãos de Deus; mas se considerarmos esta questão, tendo em vista o homem caído, como depravado pelo pecado [...].
Caído como o homem está de seu estado de felicidade original e santidade, suas faculdades e habilidades naturais constituem prova suficiente de que a mão que o fez é Divina. Ele é capaz de grandes coisas. Sua compreensão, vontade, afeições, imaginação e memória são faculdades nobres e surpreendentes. Mas ao vê-lo sob uma luz moral, como um ser inteligente, incessantemente dependente de Deus, responsáveis diante dEle, e designado por Ele para um estado de existência em um mundo imutável; considerando esta relação, o homem é um monstro, uma criatura vil, baixa, estúpida, obstinada e maliciosa; não há palavras para descrevê-lo por completo." (John Newton)
He was a strong support of the Evangelicals in the Church of England, and was a friend of the dissenting clergy as well as of the ministry of his own church.
He was the author of many hymns, including "Amazing Grace".
John Henry Newton was an English Anglican clergyman and former slave-ship captain. He was the author of many hymns, including "Amazing Grace".
Sailing back to England in 1748 aboard the merchant ship, he experienced a spiritual conversion in the Greyhound, which was hauling a load of beeswax and dyer's wood. The ship encountered a severe storm off the coast of Donegal and almost sank. Newton awoke in the middle of the night and finally called out to God as the ship filled with water. It was this experience which he later marked as the beginnings of his conversion to evangelical Christianity. As the ship sailed home, Newton began to read the Bible and other religious literature. By the time he reached Britain, he had accepted the doctrines of Evangelical Christianity.
He became well-known as an evangelical lay minister, and applied for the Anglican priesthood in 1757, although it was more than seven years before he was eventually accepted and ordained into the Church of England.
Newton joined English abolitionist William Wilberforce, leader of the Parliamentary campaign to abolish the slave trade, and lived to see the passage of the Slave Trade Act 1807.
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