 JOHN NEWTON, CLERK, Once an infidel and libertine, A servant of slaves in Africa, Was by the rich mercy of our Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST, Preserved, restored, pardoned, And appointed to preach the faith he Had long laboured to destroy, Near 16 years...  Modern London; or, London as it is [by P. Cunningham]. [10 eds. Title varies]. - Page 125by Peter Cunningham - 1851Full view - About this book
 | Robert Ethol Welsh, Frederick George Edwards - 1889 - 372 pages
...spiritual food from him. Here he died at the age of eighty-two. His epitaph was written by himself: " JOHN NEWTON, Clerk, Once an infidel and libertine,...preach the Faith He had long laboured to destroy, Near 16 years at Olney, in Bucks ; And years in this church." He was certainly a brand plucked from... | |
 | William Henry Parker - 1889 - 304 pages
...Mary's church is a marble tablet with the following inscription : JOHN NEWTON, Clerk, Once an Infldel and Libertine, A servant of slaves in Africa, Was,...preach the Faith He had long laboured to destroy, Near 16 years at Olney, in Bucks, And 28 years in this church. CHAPTER XVII. LOVE, COURTSHIP, AND MARRIAGE... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1890 - 240 pages
...Olney Hymns," for twenty-eight years rector of this parish. The inscription is from his own pen — " John Newton, clerk, once an infidel and libertine,...pardoned, and appointed to preach the faith he had laboured to destroy." hangman. " He began," says a contemporary authority, " with Mr. Burton's. There... | |
 | Henry Benjamin Wheatley - 1891 - 646 pages
...to the Rev. John Newton (Cowper's friend), rector of this church for a period of twenty-eight years, is thus inscribed:— John Newton, clerk, once an...to preach the faith he had long laboured to destroy ; near 16 years at Olney in Bucks; and 28 years in this Church." He was buried in the vault of this... | |
 | 1884 - 896 pages
...the inscription upon which was composed by Newton previous to his death, and reads as follows : — " John Newton, clerk, once an infidel and libertine,...slaves in Africa, was, by the rich mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ, preserved, restored, pardoned, and appointed to preach the faith which he had long laboured... | |
 | Charles Seymour Robinson - 1893 - 598 pages
...Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, Lombard Street, London, one may read this inscription : " John Newton, Clerk, once an Infidel and Libertine,...pardoned, and appointed to preach the faith he had long labored to destroy, Near 16 years at Olney in Bucks ; And — years in this church." This epitaph was... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1894 - 388 pages
...said to have been a sacramental cup from St. Michael's Church. ' John Newton, clerk, once an infldel and libertine, a servant of slaves in Africa, was,...preach the faith he had long laboured to destroy.' ' I remember, when a lad of about fifteen, being taken by my uncle to hear the well-known Mr. Newton... | |
 | A E. Daniell - 1895 - 444 pages
...the united parishes for twenty-eight years. It bears the epitaph which he had written for himself: " John Newton, Clerk, once an infidel and libertine,...preach the faith he had long laboured to destroy." 1 The organ has been thoroughly renovated, and was reopened on Sunday, November 1lth, 1894. Some curious... | |
 | Duncan Campbell - 1898 - 232 pages
...us as Leoni. John Newton, 1725-1807. — His epitaph, written by himself, contains these lines : — JOHN NEWTON, Clerk, once an infidel and libertine,...preach the faith he had long laboured to destroy. His career, therefore, resembles that of Augustine in illustrating " grace abounding to the chief of... | |
 | 1899 - 678 pages
...the ex-slave-trader, is commemorated by a tablet, as having once been an infidel and libertine, who was " by the rich mercy of our Lord and Saviour Jesus...Christ preserved, restored, pardoned, and appointed ti> preach the faith he had long laboured to destroy." Hence London would have lost a sacred memento... | |
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