John Newton : from disgrace to Amazing grace
John Newton became and remains a hero of the Evangelical revival. He was a formative influence on Charles Simeon and on William Wilberforce with whom he campaigned vigorously for the abolition of slavery. This work talks about John Newton.
Biographies
xix, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Acknowledgements; 1 A Spiritual Upbringing; 2 First Steps in Love and Seafaring; 3 Press-ganged; 4 Flogged and Degraded; 5 Exchanged; 6 Enslaved in Africa; 7 Rescued by the Greyhound; 8 Troublemaker and Blasphemer; 9 In the Shadow of Death; 10 False Dawns, More Storms and a Safe Landing; 11 Londonderry, Love and a Liverpool Shipowner; 12 Adventures on the Brownlow; 13 Struggles of Books, Body and Soul; 14 Marriage to Polly; 15 Captain of the Duke of Argyle; 16 First Voyage of the African; 17 The End of a Seafaring Career; 18 Unemployment, Inspiration and Prayer; 19 Methodism and Materialism; 20 Life in Liverpool.
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