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The John Newton Project
[website under re-construction]
Friday 1 January 1773
New Year's Day
The vicarage in Olney
where John Newton wrote Amazing Grace in his attic study,
for his sermon on 1 Chronicles 17:16,17
for New Year's Day, Friday 1 January 1773
<p> <a href="http://vimeo.com/56214220">Amazing Grace 240th anniversary</a> (2013) from<br /> <a href="http://vimeo.com/johnnewton">The John Newton Project</a> on Vimeo.</p> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> </td> <td> <h3> Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound)<br /> That saved a wretch like me!<br /> I once was lost, but now am found,<br /> Was blind, but now I see. <br /> <br /> 'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,<br /> And grace those fears relieved;<br /> How precious did that grace appear,<br /> The hour I first believed! <br /> <br /> Through many dangers, toils and snares,<br /> I have already come;<br /> 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,<br /> And grace will lead me home.</h3> </td> <td> <h3> The Lord has promised good to me,<br /> His word my hope secures;<br /> He will my shield and portion be,<br /> As long as life endures.<br /> <br /> Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail<br /> And mortal life shall cease;<br /> I shall possess, within the veil,<br /> A life of joy and peace.<br /> <br /> The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,<br /> The sun forbear to shine;<br /> But God, who called me here below,<br /> Will be forever mine.</h3> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> </td> <td> </td> <td> <br /> John Newton, <em>Olney Hymns</em>, 1779, Book 1, Hymn 41</td> <td valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> </td> <td colspan="2" rowspan="1" valign="top"> <br /> "As the workings of the heart of man, and of the Spirit of GOD, are in general the same, in all who are the subjects of grace, I hope most of these hymns, being the fruit and expression of my own experience, will coincide with the views of real Christians of all denominations." "The views I have received of the doctrines of grace are essential to my peace, I could not live comfortably a day or an hour without them." Newton's <a href="/Articles/369030/The_John_Newton/new_menus/Hymns/Olney_Hymns_Preface/Olney_Hymns_Preface.aspx">Preface to <em>Olney Hymns</em></a><br /> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="4" valign="top"> <h2> The words for John Newton's hymn Amazing Grace<br /> come from 1 Chronicles 17:16,17</h2> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" rowspan="1" valign="top"> </td> <td colspan="2" rowspan="1" valign="top"> I <a href="/Articles/387620/The_John_Newton/new_menus/Amazing_Grace/sermon_notes/The_Sermon_Notes.aspx">preached </a>this forenoon from 1 Chronicles 17:16,17.<br /> Hope I was enabled to speak with some liberty,<br /> but found my own heart sadly unaffected. [<a href="/Articles/425477/The_John_Newton/new_menus/About_John_Newton/blog/Blog.aspx">more</a>] </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <br /> some of Newton's <strong>matching Scripture and hymn verses</strong>:<br /> <table summary='This table is part of the current article.' border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" height="95" <tbody> <tr> <td> v7</td> <td> <em>‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, I took you from the pasture, from following the sheep...'</em></td> <td> Amazing grace…<br /> that saved a wretch like me.</td> </tr> <tr> <td> v8</td> <td> <em>'and I have been with you wherever you have gone and have cut off all your enemies from before you'</em></td> <td> Through many dangers, toils and snares,<br /> I have already come</td> </tr> <tr> <td> v9</td> <td> <em>'And I will appoint a place for my people Israel and will plant them, that they may dwell in their own place and be disturbed no more...'</em></td> <td> Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail<br /> And mortal life shall cease;<br /> I shall possess, within the veil,<br /> A life of joy and peace.</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> v10</td> <td valign="top"> <em>'And I will subdue all your enemies.'</em></td> <td valign="top"> He will my shield and portion be</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> v16</td> <td valign="top"> <em>'Who am I, O Lord God...?'</em></td> <td valign="top"> That saved a wretch like me!</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> v16</td> <td valign="top"> <em>'...that you have brought me thus far?'</em></td> <td valign="top"> 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> v17</td> <td valign="top"> <em>'You have also spoken ... for a great while to come'</em></td> <td valign="top"> As long as life endures</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> v23</td> <td valign="top"> <em>And now, O Lord, let the word that you have spoken concerning your servant ... be established forever, and do as you have spoken</em></td> <td valign="top"> His word my hope secures</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> v26</td> <td valign="top"> <em>...you have promised this good thing to your servant</em></td> <td valign="top"> The Lord has promised good to me</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> v12<br /> v14<br /> v22<br /> v23<br /> v24<br /> v27</td> <td valign="top"> <em> (the word occurs <strong><strong>eight</strong> </strong>times!)</em> <h2> <em><strong>"... for ever"</strong></em></h2> </td> <td> <h2> Will be forever mine.</h2> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table summary='This table is part of the current article.' border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td> In his <a href="/Articles/387620/The_John_Newton/new_menus/Amazing_Grace/sermon_notes/The_Sermon_Notes.aspx">New Year’s Day sermon</a>, Newton commends David’s desire “to express his gratitude” to the Lord for His “many blessings”. But Newton notes of the Lord’s people, that “unless he likewise gives them a thankful heart, they lose much of the comfort they might have in them”. David’s responses are helpful to us “as a proper subject for our meditations on the entrance of a new year”, for 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”. </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table summary='This table is part of the current article.' border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" height="1280" <tbody> <tr> <td colspan="2" rowspan="1" valign="top"> <strong>Thursday 31 December 1772</strong></td> <td valign="top"> <strong>Blog</strong> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> Preached in the evening from Job 16:22 a kind of funeral sermon for the Old Year which is now gone – beyond reach.<br /> <br /> The comforts and the trials of another year are finished and can be repeated no more.<br /> <br /> It has been to me a year of great mercies, and great sinfulness.<br /> <br /> ...How many scenes have I past through in the time. By what a way has the Lord led me. What wonders has he shown me!<br /> <br /> ...O Lord accept my praise for all that is past, enable me to trust thee for all that’s to come – and give a blessing to all who may read these records of thy goodness, and my own vileness.<br /> Amen and Amen.<br /> <br /> [<a href="/Articles/425477/The_John_Newton/new_menus/About_John_Newton/blog/Blog.aspx">more</a>]</td> <td valign="top"> <a href="/Articles/425677/The_John_Newton/new_menus/Sermons/Job/Job_16_22.aspx">Job 16:11<br /> sermon</a> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> <td colspan="3" valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td valign="top"> <h4> Christmas Morning 1773</h4> <a href="/Articles/425407/The_John_Newton/2013_redesign/Sermons/Psalms/Psalm_87_5.aspx">Ps 87:5,6<br /> sermon</a><br /> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> <h2> Astonishing!<br /> God spared not his own Son but sent <strong>him</strong> into the world<br /> ... in the form of a servant</h2> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> </td> <td> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> <h3> <strong>To know these things aright,<br /> will make the commemoration of the birth of Christ<br /> joyful any day and every day.</strong></h3> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"> </td> <td colspan="2" rowspan="1" valign="top"> <em>Image copyright</em> (granted for this website only):<br /> Harvard University Library; Princeton University Library; Cowper & Newton Museum; The John Newton Project</td> <td valign="top"> </td> <td valign="top"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> (Author: <strong>Marylynn Rouse</strong>)</p> </div> <hr size="1" /> <span id="ModuleFooter_strCopyright">© 2024 The John Newton Project</span> <a href="/Mobile/W3C.aspx">High Accessibility Version</a>. 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