Out of the Depths
by John Newton
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"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me." So begins one of the most beloved hymns of all time. This is the autobiography of the man who penned those words. John Newton, the self-proclaimed "wretch," was an active slave trader for several years until, on a homeward voyage through a violent storm, he experienced what he was later to refer to as his "great deliverance." He tells of the dramatic, real-life events that led him from sin and bondage to a life transformed by show more God's grace. show lessTags
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I listened to an Audible verisimilitude of the book. It was wordy as a typical book of that era. I learn much. The book dos not tell when he wrote the song “Amazing Grace” or the circumstances that lead him to put it on paper. There is just a small sentence that a book of songs was published.
Autobiography of the author of the song "Amazing Grace."
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John Newton (1725-1807) was born in London and at age eleven went to sea with his father, a shipmaster on the Mediterranean. Disregarding his mother's prayer that he enter the ministry, he engaged in the lucrative but brutal African slave trade for a number of years. After his conversion he served in the Church of England as pastor of Olney parish show more and later of the combined church of St. Mary's in London. In addition to the words of "Amazing Grace," Newton was a prolific songwriter whose other well-known hymns include "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken" and "How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds." Dennis R. Hillman (Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary) has served in pastoral ministry, writing, and Christian publishing for more than twenty-five years show less
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- Original publication date
- 1779
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