Converts from Infidelity |
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Author:
| Crichton, Andrew |
ISBN: | 978-0-217-82363-0 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2009 |
Publisher: | General Books LLC
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $19.99 |
Book Description:
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REV. JOHN NEWTON. The particulars of Mr Newton's life, are perhaps more extensively and familiarly known, than some others that have been admitted into the present selection. The conspicuous part he acted as a member of the church. for upwards of forty years, ?his useful labours as a writer, ?and the...
More DescriptionPurchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: REV. JOHN NEWTON. The particulars of Mr Newton's life, are perhaps more extensively and familiarly known, than some others that have been admitted into the present selection. The conspicuous part he acted as a member of the church. for upwards of forty years, ?his useful labours as a writer, ?and the general esteem in which he was held as a man of sincere piety, and sound Christian principles, all tended to interest the public in his history, and have conferred upon his name no ordinary share of popularity. These circumstances, however, cannot form any reasonable apology for omitting to record him, as a remarkable instance, on the list of reformed profligates; neither will he, on this account, stand the less prominent and distinguished among other monuments to the signal victories of divine truth. We have, in his life, a deplorable example of early depravity, and of inveterate moral corruption. Few cases, perhaps, ever exceeded his, in the malignity of its symptoms, or could appear in all probability mere hopeless of Reformation. His history, therefore, whether considered with reference to the instructive exhibition it unfolds, of a succession of striking and wonderful interpositions, manifested through a long train of remarkable facts; or as displaying the singular methods adopted by providence for his arrestment and recovery, ?will be found to add no common testimony to the uuchangeable truth, and the bsneficial tendency of the Christian revelation. John Newton was born in London, July 24th, 1725. His parents were respectable, though not in affluent circumstances. His father was many years master of a ship in the Mediterranean trade; he had great knowledge of the world; was a man of very good sense, and exemplary in his moral conduct, but without any serious impressions of..