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Amazing Grace

sung by The Inishowen Gateway Singers,

from the bridge over the River Crana, Buncrana, Lough Swilly on 8 April 2013,

the anniversary of John Newton's arrival here in the Greyhound on 8 April 1748.


 
          

Amazing Grace 240th anniversary from The John Newton Project on Vimeo.
       

John Newton's sermon for Amazing Grace:

"The Lord bestows many blessings upon his people, but unless he likewise gives them a thankful heart, they lose much of the comfort they might have in them. 

And this is not only a blessing in itself but an earnest of more.  When David was peacefully settled in the kingdom, he purposed to express his gratitude by building a place for the Ark.  This honour the Lord had appointed for his son Solomon, but he graciously accepted David's intention, for he not only notices the poor services of his people, but even their desires to serve him, when they spring from a principle of simple love, though opportunity should be wanting.  He sent him a message by Nathan assuring him that his son should build the house and that he himself would build David's house and establish his kingdom.  This filled his heart with praise.  My text is part of his acknowledgement. 

Omitting David's personal concerns, I would accommodate them to our own use as a proper subject for our meditations on the entrance of a new year.  They lead us to a consideration of past mercies and future hopes and intimate the frame of mind which becomes us when we contemplate what the Lord has done for us."

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John Newton's words for Amazing Grace:

Faith's review and expectation
1 Chronicles 17:16,17
Amazing grace!  (how sweet the sound)
That saved a wretch like me!     
I once was lost, but now am found,       
Was blind, but now I see.          
 
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace those fears relieved;
How precious did that grace appear,     
The hour I first believed!                       
 
Through many dangers, toils and snares,
I have already come;                            
'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.		 The Lord has promised good to me,
His word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be,
As long as life endures.
 
Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail
And mortal life shall cease;
I shall possess, within the veil,
A life of joy and peace.
 
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who called me here below,
Will be forever mine.
 

World-record-breaking Stratford scholar



"I was never at school but about two years; from my eighth to my tenth year. It was a boarding-school at Stratford, in Essex."


With only two years formal education to his credit, John Newton holds the world record for the song most recorded by different artists.


For details of this world record, see the Library of Congress website's description of their collection of OVER 3,000 DIFFERENT RECORDINGS of Amazing Grace.


For more about the extraordinary life of John Newton, see the exhibition in his former church St Mary Woolnoth, from 30th July to 10th August.


For more about record-breaking grace see Romans 3:23,24

For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

and Romans chapters 5 to 8


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Plaque at Purfleet, Essex, close to the site where John Newton lived in his step-mother's home, and where he set sail at the age of 11 from Long Reach as his father's cabin boy
 
From John Newton’s previously unpublished diary:


Manesty's Lane, Liverpool
[courtesy Liverpool Record Office, Liverpool Libraries] 		Friday 15 August 1755

"In ye morning rode to Liverpoole; by the way had many sweet comfortable moments – an impressed sense of God’s many mercies warmed my heart, and led me into several intervals of praise, and from thence to renew all my former self-dedication to his name and service; these exercises made the journey very pleasant. On my arrival found all well; the usual reception from Mr & Mrs M[Manesty] and much civility and kindness from others – especially Mr C[probably John Colquitt] when I waited on him, passed all my forms at ye Custom House and received my deputation. Spent ye Aft[afternoon] with my friend Mr W[Welsh]."
John Newton Diary, Princeton University, CO199


Transcripts from Newton’s previously unpublished diaries beginning here December 2011 …