1725-1807
"I aim to speak plain truths to a plain people! May it please the God of all grace, to accompany my feeble endeavors to promote the knowledge of His truth! If my letters are owned to comfort the afflicted, to quicken the careless, to confirm the wavering — I will rejoice." John Newton"Heart-anatomy is my favorite science. I mean, the study of the human heart, with its workings and counter-workings, as it is differently affected in the different seasons of prosperity, adversity, conviction, temptation, sickness, and the approach of death. I aim to speak plain truths to plain people!" John Newton
"In few writers are Christian doctrine, experience and practice more happily balanced than John Newton. Few write with more simplicity, piety or power." Charles Spurgeon
"What thousands have derived repeated profit and pleasure from the perusal of these utterances of the heart! Nor ever will they cease to be found means of grace while God has a church on earth!" William Jay
"My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one." John Newton
"For myself, I keep John Newton on my selectest shelf of spiritual books: by far the best kind of books in the whole world of books!" Alexander Whyte
"Ex-slave-trader John Newton was the friendliest, wisest, and humblest of all the eighteenth-century evangelical leaders, and was perhaps the greatest pastoral letter-writer of all time." J. I. Packer
"These letters are, according to the various circumstances of his correspondents-- designed to guide and direct, to comfort, or, if need be, with all tenderness to reprove, while they often become the ardent effusions of Christian love towards those who formed the inner circle of his friends. They are full of wisdom and piety, rich in kindly feeling, written in easy flowing language, with many happy turns of expression, and often made striking by their simple yet ingenious illustrations." Josiah Bull, Newton's biographer
Blemishes in Christian character
The practical influence of faith
The inefficacy of mere knowledge
The advantages of a state of poverty
Causes, nature, and marks of a decline in grace
Difference between acquired and experimental knowledge
By the grace of God I am what I am!
Separated from the ungodly world
All things work together for good
The comforts and snares of social affections
Four letters on 'denominations', and forms of 'church government'
Twenty-one letters to a friend
Eight letters to a Christian friend
Five letters to a Christian friend
Three letters to a tempted believer
Three letters to a Christian friend
Seven letters to a Christian friend
Four letters to a Christian friend
Four letters to a Christian friend
Seven letters to a Christian friend
Five letters to a young man going into the Christian ministry
The Aged Pilgrim's Triumph Over Sin and the Grave! (Illustrated in a Series of Letters)
The Christian
Correspondent
(Letters to a pastor friend)
Letters to
Rev. James Coffin
(some 120 pages)
Additional
letters of John Newton
(some 300 pages)
Preaching the Gospel with the power and the Spirit
Twenty-one letters to his adopted daughter
Eighteen letters to several friends
Our imperfect knowledge of Christ's love
Letters to Rev. William Barlass
Three letters to an aged friend
The Lord only afflicts for our good
A Christian's attainments in the present life
Seriously engaged about trifles
That bitter root, indwelling sin!
When we see the world in flames!
All our concerns are in His hands
Trust in the providence of God, and benevolence to his poor
Pliny's letter to the Emperor Trajan
Extract of a letter to a student in divinity
Enjoyment of the pleasures of the present life
A sketch of the Christian's temper
I was once blind, but now I see
Will the sins of believers be publicly declared at the great day?
The snares and difficulties attending the ministry of the gospel
The propriety of a ministerial address to the unconverted
The inward witness to the ground and reality of faith
The doctrines of election and final perseverance
Simplicity and godly sincerity
The believer's growth in grace
On the gradual increase of gospel illumination
To a friend, on his recovery from illness
On faith, and the communion of saints
A Christian's present blessedness
Through Many Dangers!
Newton's Autobiography
"These letters are, according to the various circumstances of his correspondents — designed to guide and direct, to comfort, or, if need be, with all tenderness to reprove, while they often become the ardent effusions of Christian love towards those who formed the inner circle of his friends. They are full of wisdom and piety, rich in kindly feeling, written in easy flowing language, with many happy turns of expression, and often made striking by their simple yet ingenious illustrations." Josiah Bull, author of "John Newton; an Autobiography and Narrative".
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