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John newton8/11/2023 ![]() ![]() We extract the account from his own narrative:. ![]() His conversion to Christianity occurred on his return homewards from the coast of Africa, when the ship was overtaken by a dreadful storm, and death seemed to be inevitable. At home, abroad, on the mighty deep, or on foreign shores, he carried with him the marks of his servitude, the taint of his corruption, and the visible wrath of an offended God. His guilt was equalled only by his misery. With time his conscience began to bother him. He subsequently engaged in the slave-trade on the coast of Sierra Leone, Africa, where his conduct awakened, even among the slaves, emotions of alarm and astonishment. Having deserted his ship, he was overtaken, kept in irons, publicly whipped, and degraded from his office. Here he was seduced into infidel principles by one of his companions, who in a violent storm was swept into eternity, while he himself was mercifully spared. Harwich, a 50-gun man-of-war, on 4th March, 1744. His early life seems to present a mingled detail of religious duties and declensions - relapses into sin, accompanied by strong convictions of his guilt and danger - providential warnings, which roused his conscience for a time, and were subsequently forgotten till at length, by successive instances of grieving God's Holy Spirit, he sank into the very depths of wickedness.In 1743 he was impressed, put on board a tender, from which he was released by the exertions of his father, and soon after entered the navy as a midshipman - on the "H.M.S. When he was 11 years old he joined his father, and made five voyages with him to the Mediterranean. Her premature death deprived him at the age of 7 of this excellent superintending care. His mother was a pious character and it is to her that he was indebted, in his early years, for those religious impressions which, however subsequently weakened, were probably never wholly effaced. His father was master of a ship in the Mediterranean trade. John Newton, author of "Amazing Grace", was born in London the 24th of July, 1725. ![]()
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