Letters of John Newton E. J. Young and the Church’s decay and

and the Church’s decay and corruptions– The wound and the cure are therein so fully opened out: self is exposed

that time is now’

one of his younger hearers in the late 1940s

in this comprehensive study

to remind us of the matchless love of Jesus

Letters of John Newton E. J. Young and the Church’s decay andJohn Newton (1725 1807), converted slave trader, preacher, and hymn writer, was one of the most colourful figures in the Evangelical Awakening of the eighteenth century. Once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves in Africa', he once wrote for his epitaph, by the rich mercy of Jesus Christ, preserved, restored, pardoned, and appointed to preach the faith he had long laboured to destroy.' It was through his prolific correspondence that Newton