John Newton on Brethren

[A believer] “loves the Lord’s people, accounts them the excellent of the earth, and delights in their conversation.  He is longing, waiting, and praying, for a share in those blessings which he believes they enjoy, and can be satisfied with nothing less.”

John Newton, Letters of John Newton, p. 15

Source: Letters of John Newton

We all know John Newton as the author of Amazing Grace, perhaps the best-known gospel hymn of all time.  We also may know him as a converted slave trader who contributed to the English abolition movement in the late 1700s.  Fewer may know him as a cons …

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