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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A memorial of the unchangeable goodness of God, under changing dispensations.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Printed at Kingston, (Ulster County) [N.Y. : s.n.], 1796

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Letters and sermons, with A review of ecclesiastical history, and hymns. By John Newton, Rector of St Mary, Woolnoth, London. In six volumes.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : printed for J. Buckland, No 57. Pater-Noster-Row; and J. Johnson, No 72. St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1787

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Letters, sermons, and a review of ecclesiastical history By John Newton, Late Curate of Olney, Bucks. In Three Volumes.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Edinburgh : printed by A. Murray and J. Cochran. Sold, at Edinburgh, by Mess. Gray, Dickson, and Elliot; at Glasgow, by Mess. J. Duncan, Dunlop & Wilson, and J. Bryce; at Aberdeen, by Angus & Son; at Perth, by J. Gillies; at Dundee, by R. Nicol; at Kelso, by G. Elliot; and at Dumfries, by E. Wilson, 1780

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A review of ecclesiastical history, so far as it concerns the progress, declensions and revivals of Evangelical Doctrine and Practice; with A Brief Account of the spirit and methods by which Vital and Experimental Religion have been opposed In all ages of the Church. By John Newton, Curate of Olney, Bucks.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, in the Poultry, 1770

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The great advent. A sermon preached in the parish church of St. Mary Woolnoth, Lombard-Street. On April 23, 1789. the day of general thanksgiving for the king's happy recovery. By John Newton, Rector.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : printed for J. Buckland, in Pater-Noster-Row, and J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1789

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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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The praying Negro an authentic narrative.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Andover [Mass.] : Printed for the New England Tract Society, 1819
2nd ed.

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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, 1792
The eighth edition.

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Olney humns, in three books. Book I. On select texts of Scripture. Book II. On occasional subjects. Book III. On the progress and changes of the spiritual life. /
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Philadelphia: : Printed for William Young, no. 52, Second-Street, the corner of Chesnut-Street., 1791

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Letters to a wife.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Whitehall [Pa.]: : Printed by William Young, bookseller and stationer, no. 52, South Second Street, Philadelphia., 1797
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Thoughts upon the African slave trade. By John Newton, rector of St. Mary Woolnoth
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : Printed for J. Buckland, in Pater-Noster-Row; J. Johnson, in St. Paul's Church-Yard; and J. Phillips, in George-Yard, 1788

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A plan of academical preparation for the ministry, in a letter to a friend
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
[London?] : [s.n.], 1784
Second edition.

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Twenty-Six letters on religious subjects. Namely, 1. On Trust in God. 2. To a Student. 3. To a Friend, on 2 Cor. v. 10 4. On Family Worship. 5. On the Difficulties attending the Ministry. 6. On the Influence of Faith. 7. On a Ministerial Address. 8. On the inward Witness. 9. On Election, &c. 10. On Grace in the Blade. 11. On Grace in the Ear. 12. On the full Corn. 13. On hearing Sermons. 14. On Temptation. 15. A Plan of a Library. 16. On the Inefficacy of Knowledge. 17. On a Believer's Frames. 18. On Social Prayer. 19. On Controversy. 20. On Conformity. 21. On Spiritual Blindness. 22. On a State of Poverty. 23. On Simplicity, &c. 24. On Communion. 25. On Faith, &c. 26. On Gospel Illumination. To which are added, hymns, &c. By Omicron.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Dublin : printed for and sold by William Gilbert, No. 26, Great George's-Street, 1780
The fourth edition, carefully corrected.

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Olney Hymns in three books /
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
New-York : Printed by M'Farlane and Long, 1808

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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 by R. Hett, for J. Johnson, opposite the Monument, 1764
The second edition.

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Letters and conversational remarks
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
New York : S. Whiting & Co., 1811

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An account of Eliza Cunningham
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Andover [Mass.] : Printed for the New England Tract Society by Flagg and Gould, 1819
4th ed.

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A view of ecclesiastical history.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
Boston: : Printed for Joseph Bumstead, printer and bookseller, no. 20, Union-Street., 1798

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Motives to humiliation and praise. A sermon, preached in the parish church of St. Mary Woolnoth, Lombard-Street, on December 19, 1797, The Day of General Thanksgiving, to Almighty God, for our late Naval Victories. By John Newton, Rector.
by Newton, John, 1725-1807
London : printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1798

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