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Newton: God's Design in Temptation
Why does God allow His people to be tested so? An answer from the writer of "Amazing Grace", John Newton.
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A preface to John Newton's autobiography. A quick sketch of Newton's life. The six original verses of Amazing Grace. Get ready for an intriguing story.
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Chapter 1. Newton explains why he took pen in hand to share his story. In the process he shares much about the workings of God in our lives. This is "Pastor" Newton sp...
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Chapter Two: Newton's early childhood. Mother dies when he is 7. Off to sea at 11. Early religious attempts at pleasing God.
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Chapter 3: Newton begins to abandon all connections to the religion of his younger days. He meets during this time of his life the young lady that will fill his heart ...
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Chapter 4: More about his courtship. Another change of direction. And Newton enters the slave trade, with dreams of great wealth. The downward spiral continues.
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Chapter 5: Newton begins to experience the wages of sin, and incredible humiliation, in the slave trade.
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Chapter 6. A new master. Newton's father has him recalled from Africa, where he has actually become accustomed to the possibility of becoming African in every way. A s...
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Chapter 7: Over and over, Newton comes to the brink of death and is rescued by the Providence of God. Truly a story of amazing grace!
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Chapter 8: All hope is gone. The ship is sinking. One more foul wind and it's all over. But God is not finished with John Newton.
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Chapter 9: Newton comes to his senses, seems to be on his way to the Lord, but not quite...
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Chapter 10: Though tricked by the enemy for some time, Newton finally makes a permanent peace with the Lord, and continues to have deliverances in his work that are no...
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Chapter 11. Marriage at last. Inconsistencies in his walk. And Newton's early and later convictions regarding the slave trade.
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Chapter 12: The advantages of the seafaring life to the man of God. No word from his wife at the port. Is she still alive?
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He finally is able to lay the slave trade aside. Sickness nearly unto death. Then a crisis at home.
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Chapter 14: Newton concludes his autobiography by telling of his call to the ministry. Truly amazing grace, yes?
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From Newton the slave-trader and Newton the convert we move to Newton the minister, as autobiography ends and a short biography of his later days begins.
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At one time placing this woman above his Lord, Newton believed that the slow agonizing death of his childhood love and wife, was the rod of God upon him. He describes ...
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Newton's later life, his will, his self-written epitaph, his decline, his death.
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Excellent sayings of an excellent man of God, John Newton.