Excerpt from The Works of the Rev. John Newton, Late Pastor of the United Parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolchurch-Haw, Lombard Street, London, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing, an Authentic Narrative, Etc. Letters on Religious Subjects, Cardiphonia, Discourses Intended for the Pulpit, Sermons Preached in the Parish Church of Olney, a Review of Ecclesiastical History, Olney Hymns, Poems, Messiah, Occasional Sermons
A few articles may be added to this account from the Narrative, where we find, that his pious mother stored his memory with whole chapters, and smaller portions Of Scripture, catechisms, hymns, and poems; and Often commended him with prayers and tears to God also, that in his sixth year he began 'to learn Latin, though the intended plan of his education was soon broken; and that he lost this valuable parent, July I], 1732.
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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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