# “May the great Teacher make every Scriptural truth food to our souls” by John Newton

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- Published: 2023-09-13T12:00:13-05:00
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“Let us give ourselves to the study of the Word, and to prayer. And may the great
Teacher make every Scriptural truth food to our souls.

I desire to grow in knowledge, but I want nothing which bears that name that has
not a direct tendency to make sin more hateful, Jesus more precious to my soul, 
and at the same time, to animate me to a diligent use of every appointed means, 
and an unreserved regard to every branch of duty.

I think the Lord has shown me in a measure there is a consistent sense running through
the whole Scripture, and I desire to be governed and influenced by it all.

Doctrines, precepts, promises, warnings, all have their proper place and use: and
I think many of the inconveniences which obtain in the present day, spring from 
separating those things which God hath joined together, and insisting on some parts
of the Word of God almost to the exclusion of the rest.”

–John Newton, [_The Works of John Newton_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1848715110?tag=toletaupanre-20),
[_Volume 2_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1848715110?tag=toletaupanre-20) (Carlisle,
PA: Banner of Truth, 1988), 2: 113-114.

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