Letters of John Newton: With Biographical Sketches and Notes from Josiah Bull Biography John Olley

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Letters of John Newton: With Biographical Sketches and Notes from Josiah Bull Biography John OlleyJohn Newton converted slave trader, preacher, and hymn writer, was one of the most colourful figures in the Evangelical Awakening of the eighteenth century. Once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves in Africa, he wrote for this epitaph, by rich mercy of Jesus Christ, preserved, restored, pardoned, and appointed to preach the faith he had long laboured to destroy. It was through his prolific correspondence that Newton fulfilled his distinctive