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CONTENTS
8. THE ROYAL NAVY, ENGLAND, 1744
24. ST. MARY’S OF WOOLNOTH, LONDON, 1779
PREFACE
For over two hundred years the song “Amazing Grace” by John Newton has been sung and loved by Christians worldwide. It is included in hymnals of most traditional and evangelical churches. Almost everyone knows the first verse by memory:
Amazing grace, how sweet the sound,
That saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
But not everyone knows that when Newton wrote that song he was not being merely poetic, but truthful and grateful. Few who sing those words know how much of a wretch he really had been—how sinful, how blasphemous, how licentious and rebellious against God and man.
Nor do many know of his great love for a woman which sustained him through his terrible punishment as a deserter from the British navy; through his humiliations while engaged in the slave trade; through being shipwrecked. These were some of the “many dangers, toils and snares” through which he had “already come.”
Eventually this sinful atheist became a famous minister, writer, and hymn writer.
THIS SINFUL ATHEIST BECAME A FAMOUS MINISTER AND HYMN WRITER.
In the early days of his walk with God, he was influenced ...
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About John Newton: Author of "Amazing Grace"For challenge and encouragement in your Christian life, read the life stories of the Heroes of the Faith. The novelized biographies of this series are inspiring and easy-to-read, ideal for Christians of any age or background. In John Newton, readers will get to know the one-time slave trader whose conversion led him to pen the immortal words of the hymn “Amazing Grace.” Appropriate for readers from junior high through adult, helpful for believers of any background, these biographies encourage greater Christian commitment through the example of heroes like John Newton.
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