# “A rich and gracious Savior” by John Newton

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- Published: 2017-09-06T12:00:04-05:00
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“I may express all my complaints in one short sentence: I am a _poor creature_.

And all my hopes and comforts may be summed up as briefly by saying: I have a _rich
and gracious Saviour_.

Full as I am in myself of inconsistencies and conflicts, I have in Him a measure
of peace.

He found me in a waste howling wilderness. He redeemed me from the house of misery
and bondage.

And though I have been ungrateful and perverse, He has not yet forsaken me. I trust
He never will.

‘Unsustained by Thee I fall.’ But He is able to hold even me up: to pity, to support,
and to supply me to the end of life.

How suitable a Saviour! He is made all things to those _who have nothing_, and He
is engaged to help those _who can do nothing_.”

–John Newton, _[The Aged Pilgrim’s Thoughts Over Sin and the Grave, Illustrated in a Series of Letters to Walter Taylor, Never Before Published, by the Rev. John Newton](https://books.google.com/books?id=aWxjAAAAcAAJ&dq=aged%20pilgrim's%20triumph%20over%20sin%20and%20the%20grave&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=true)_(
London: Baker and Fletcher, 2nd Ed., 1825), 6.

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