John Newton - Author of Amazing Grace
By Anne Sandberg
- Subject
- Biography / General
- Publisher
- Barbour Publishing, Incorporated
- Published
- February 1, 1996
- Pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN
- 9781557487858
About this book
But John Newton could not recognise those melodious strains until he mended his seafaring ways. The son of a merchant ship commander, young Newton grew up plying the Mediterranean ports of call. Years later, as the master of a slave ship himself, Newton was saved from what he called his life of debauchery by his conversion amid a fierce storm.
Ordained to the ministry in 1764 in the Anglican Church, Newton used his pulpit to espouse his Calvinist theology and to rail against such social ills as his former livelihood, the abominable slave trade. yet while his ministry was popular, his gift for hymn writing would be more enduring.
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