Out of the Depths: The Autobiography of John Newton / with an introduction by Herbert Lockyer / General editors of the series: William J. Petersen and Warner A. Hutchinson / A Shepherd Illustrated Classic / Keats Pub, 1981 / Paperback 

ISBN-10: 0879832436 

ISBN-13: 9780879832438 / 978-0879832438

Printed in the USA

Pages 135

!!! Condition of Book is USED - VERY GOOD !!!

The autobiography of a man who was converted from slave trader to noted minister, writer and author of the beloved hymn Amazing Grace.

INTRODUCTION TO THE SHEPHERD ILLUSTRATED CLASSICS EDITION

John Newton, the famed London preacher and hymn- writer who, in his Olney Hymns, taught the Church to sing his own devotional lyrics, Amazing Grace and How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds, wrote better than he knew, when over 200 years ago he gave the world his evangelical masterpiece-Out of the Depths. Truly, this remarkable Christian classic, in its new dress, has come to the kingdom for such a time as this. What an age of universal trouble and despair ours is! Scientists are telling us that a nuclear catastrophe is almost at the stroke of midnight. Well, we certainly need a spiritual magnet to draw us up out of our depths of sin, fear, depression and rumors of war; the reissue of Newton's soul-stirring volume provides such a magnet.
Perhaps a brief biographical sketch of this Anglican Church minister might help us to appreciate more fully the truths he set forth in this monumental and thrilling volume, proving the marvelous transforming power of God in a human life, which Newton originally penned in letter form. John Newton was born in London on July 24, 1725, and he came to occupy a unique position among Evangelicals of his time. Doubtless, the romance of his younger days, as well as the force of his character, made him the conspicuous power he became.
Newton's mother was a pious woman who filled his mind with Scripture, but she died when he was but seven years old. After two years of schooling, during which he learned the rudiments of Latin, he went to sea with his father. His life out on the deep sea was associated with vivid dreams, sailor recklessness and...