Forty-One Letters on Religious Subjects

by John Newton, Elisha Pope Swift (Creator)

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Genres: Christian

250 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1807

About the author

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John Newton was born in London and at age eleven went to sea with his father, a shipmaster on the Mediterranean. Disregarding his mother's prayer that he enter the ministry, he engaged in the lucrative but brutal African slave trade for a number of years. Afterwards, he served in the Church of England as pastor of Olney parish and later of the combined church of St. Mary's in London. In addition to the words of "Amazing Grace," Newton was a prolific songwriter whose other well-known hymns include "Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken" and "How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds."

Reviews

[Anete Ābola · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you would like to receive letters from a pastor full of pastoral care and explanation of the things of God from Scripture in your mailbox, this one is for you. Better to read after getting to now John Newton's biography, so you understand where he is coming from. Wise and every paragraph full of content - as the old books usually are, truly feeding the soul.

[Robert Luff · Rating 4 out of 5]

These letters are, by design, less personal than the ones Newton published in Cardiphonia and its sequel. They lack some of the fire that those letters have. But still -- they're so encouraging, and more instructive than many of the others. I strongly urge every born-again Christian to read some of John Newton's letters. They will do your heart and your soul good!