John Newton

Contemporary portrait of Newton John Newton (; – 21 December 1807) was an English evangelical Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist. He had previously been a captain of slave ships and an investor in the slave trade. He served as a sailor in the Royal Navy (after forced recruitment) and was himself enslaved for a time in West Africa. He is noted for being author of the hymns ''Amazing Grace'' and ''Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken''.

Newton went to sea at a young age and worked on slave ships in the slave trade for several years. In 1745, he himself became a slave of Princess Peye, a woman of the Sherbro people in what is now Sierra Leone. He was rescued, returned to sea and the trade, becoming Captain of several slave ships. After retiring from active sea-faring, he continued to invest in the slave trade. Some years after experiencing a conversion to Christianity, Newton later renounced his trade and became a prominent supporter of abolitionism. Now an evangelical, he was ordained as a Church of England cleric and served as parish priest at Olney, Buckinghamshire, for two decades and wrote hymns.

Newton lived to see the British Empire's abolition of the African slave trade in 1807, just months before his death. Provided by Wikipedia
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The progress of grace : in three letters to a friend /
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
New York : American Tract Society, 1820

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Voice of the heart : cardiphonia. With a biographical sketch of the author /
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Chicago : Moody Press, 1952

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Olney Hymns : in three books /
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Philadelphia : Printed by and for W.W. Woodward, 1812

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Messiah : fifty expository discourses, on the serial passages which form the subject of the celebrated oratorio of Handel /
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Philadelphia : Printed for and sold by William W. Woodward, 1812

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The posthumous works of the late Rev. John Newton.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Philadelphia : W.W. Woodward, 1813
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A review of ecclesiastical history /
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Wilmington, Del. : Printed and sold by James Wilson, 1807
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The life of Eliza Cunningham.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
[Philadelphia] : Philadelphia Female Tract Society, 1816

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Olney Hymns.

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A token of affection and respect, to the parishioners of St. Mary Woolnoth, and St. Mary Woolchurch, London, from their minister.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : [s.n.], 1781

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Cardiphonia or, the utterance of the heart; in the course of a real correspondence. By the author of Omicron's Letters. The second edition. In two volumes.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : printed for J. Buckland; and J. Johnson, 1782

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An authentic narrative of some remarkable and interesting particulars in the life of ********* communicated in a series of letters, to the Rev. Mr. Haweis. Rector of Aldwinckle, Northamptonshire, and by him (at the Request of Friends) now made public.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : printed for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1799
The ninth edition.

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Letters, containing the Authentic narrative, and those which originally appeared in a periodical publication, under the signatures Omicron and Vigil. By John Newton, Rector of St Mary Woolnoth, London.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Edinburgh : printed by Murray and Cochrane, for John Guthrie, No. 2. Nicolson's Street; John Fairbairn, No. 9. Hunter Square; and John Ogle, Parliament Square, 1798

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Political debate on Christian principles or, the substance of a correspondence between the reverend John Newton, Rector of St Mary, Woolnoth, London, and the reverend David Williamson, Author of Lectures on Civil and Religious Liberty, Whitehaven.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Edinburgh : printed for John Ogle, Edinburgh; and J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1793

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An authentic narrative of some remarkable and interesting particulars in the life of ********. Communicated in a series of letters, to the Reverend Mr Haweis, Rector of Aldwinckle, Northamptonshire; and by him (at the Request of Friends) now made public.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : printed for S. Drapier, T. Hitch, and P. Hill, 1765
The third edition.

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Twenty-six letters on religious subjects. To which are added hymns, and an appendix containing fourteen letters, &c. Formerly published separately under the signature of Vigil. By Omicron
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : Printed and sold by T. Wilkins, No. 12, Bartholomew Close; sold also by J. Buckland, No. 57, Pater-noster Row; and J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-yard, 1785

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An authentic narrative of some remarkable and interesting particulars in the life of Mr. John Newton communicated in a series of letters to the Rev. Mr. Haweis, rector of Aldwinckle, Northamptonshire.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Hudson [N.Y.] : Printed by Ashbel Stoddard : sold at his printing office and book-store, 1805
1st Hudson ed.

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The imminent danger, and the only sure resource of this nation: a sermon, preached in the parish church of St. Mary Woolnoth, Lombard Street, On Friday the 28th of February 1794, The Day appointed for a General Fast. By John Newton, Rector.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard, 1794

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An authentic narrative of some remarkable and interesting particulars in the life of John Newton : communicated in a series of letters to the Rev. Mr. Haweis, rector of Aldwinckle, Northamptonshire.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
New-York : Evert Duyckinck, 1806

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Chwech ar hugain o lythyrau ar destunau crefyddol. Gan Omicron. Wedi newydd eu cyfieithu o'r Saesonaeg, i'r Cymraeg, er Budd i'r Cymry, gan William Davies. At ba rai y chwanegwyd ychydig hymnau ar amryw Fesurau, i'w canu yn gyhoeddus.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Caerfyrddin : argraffwyd gan J. Ross, YN Heol-Y-Prior, 1777

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Memoirs of the life of the late Rev. William Grimshaw, A. B. Minister of Haworth, in the west riding of the County of York; with occasional reflections. By John Newton, rector of St. Mary Woolnoth: In six letters to the Rev. Henry Foster, minister of long-acre Chapel.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : printed by T. Bensley, for the Society instituted for the relief of poor, pious clergymen of the established church, residing in the country; And sold by Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church Yard; W. Parke, deputy secretary to the society, No. 109, Gray's Inn-Lane; and by Stanfield, Bradford; Edwards and Sons Halifax; and Binns, and Brown, Leeds, 1799

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