assigning final destinies (Matt 25:31–46). He saves believers who are in union with him (John 14:20; 17:23). He says that he brings the age to come (Matt 12:28; 25:34, 41). And he receives devotion due only to God (John 14:13–14; 20:28). Voices from Church History: John Newton Newton (1725–1807), after serving as a captain on slave ships, was converted and later became an evangelical Anglican clergyman. He supported abolitionism, and lived to see slavery abolished in England just before his death.