“I am often wounded, but the Lord is my health.
Still I am a living monument of mercy; and I trust that word, “Because I live you shall live also,” will carry me to the end.
I am poor, weak, and foolish; but Jesus is wise, strong, and abounding in grace.
He has given me a desire to trust my all in His hands, and He will not disappoint the expectation which He Himself has raised.
At present I have but little to say, and but little time to say it in. When you think of this place, I hope you will think and believe, that you have friends here most cordially interested in your welfare, and often remembering you in prayer.
May the Lord be your guide and shield, and give you the best desires of your heart.
I pray Him to establish and settle you in the great truths of His Word. I trust He will.
We learn more, and more effectually, by one minute’s communication with Him through the medium of His written word, than we could from an assembly of divines, or a library of books.
Yours,
John Newton”
–John Newton, The Works of John Newton, Volume 2 (Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1988), 2: 84.
