William Jay was a young pastor in London whose career was beginning to ascend just as John Newton’s ministry was coming to an end. Like Newton, Jay was a gifted pastor with no formal theological training. In the fall of 1807, the thirty-eight-year-old brought along a notebook and pencil for what would prove to be his final visit to his old friend. Newton was in his eighties, bedridden, and confined to an upstairs bedroom in the London home of his adopted daughter and