“The believer shall so conquer in the close of the campaign, that he shall never hear the sound of war any more and so conquer in time as to triumph to eternity.
This we owe to Jesus. We overcome not by our own might, but by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of His testimony.
He has conquered for us, and He goes before us, and He fights in us by His Spirit, and in His own time He will bruise Satan under our feet.
In the meanwhile, He will be your strength and your shield. He will be your song and your salvation. In His name you may lift up your banner, and bid defiance to Satan and all his hosts…
I think, when the Lord permits us all to meet here again together, we shall have much to say on the subject of redeeming love.
We shall have much to ascribe to the wisdom, the power, and the goodness of a wonder-working God, who causes light to shine out of darkness, and has given us the light of the knowledge of His glory in the person of Jesus Christ.
What an amazing change in our state, in our heart, in our views, is the result of this discovery! Old things pass away. All things become new.
Then we see how unavoidably we must be men wondered at by all who have not experienced the same things, and we are content to be so for His sake who has loved us, and to account His cross our glory.
Believe me to be, my dear Sir, most affectionately your’s, in the nearest and strongest bond of friendship,
John Newton”
–John Newton “Letter V to Mr. William Cowper, March 15, 1770,” in The Works of John Newton, Ed. Richard Cecil (London: Hamilton, Adams & Co., 1824), 6: 155–156.
