The Works of John Newton - Tapa dura

'In few writers are Christian doctrine, experience and practice more happily balanced than in the author of these letters, and few write with more simplicity, piety and force.' -- Charles H. Spurgeon "https://banneroftruth.org/us/store/christian-living/works-john-newton/"

'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 whilst God has a church on earth.' -- William Jay "https://banneroftruth.org/us/store/christian-living/works-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 "https://banneroftruth.org/us/store/christian-living/works-john-newton/"

When John Newton, ex-sea captain and, as yet, unsuccessful candidate for the Church of England ministry, finished his first book (an autobiography) in 1762 there was no ready publisher. Any thought that he was destined to become one of the best known authors of his age would have been as fantastic as the last 37 years of his life. But in both cases the improbable came about. Becoming curate of Olney, a small village in the south of England, in 1764, Newton there laid his reputation as an evangelical writer, pre-eminently by his published letters and by the Olney Hymns (including 'How Great the Name of Jesus Sounds, 'Glorious things of Thee are spoken' and 'Amazing grace'). Before the end of his subsequent pastorate at St. Mary Woolnoth, London (1780-1807), his writings were prized around the world from America to Australia.