One man was full of amazing grace

He (Jesus Christ) was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John 1: 10-14)

Amazing grace how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I once was lost, but now I'm found Was blind but now I see.
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear And grace my fears relieved How precious did that grace appear The hour I first believed.	John Newton 1725 – 807) was an English evangelical Anglican cleric and slavery abolitionist. He had previously been a captain of slave ships and an investor in the slave trade. He served as a sailor in the Royal Navy (after forced recruitment) and was himself enslaved for a time in West Africa. He is noted for being author of the hymns Amazing Grace and Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken. (Wikipedia)
Through many dangers, toils, and snares I have already come This grace that brought me safe thus far And grace will lead me home.
When we've been here ten thousand years Bright, shining as the sun We've no less days to sing God's praise Than when we first begun.	Newton went to sea at a young age and worked on slave ships in the slave trade for several years. In 1745, he himself became a slave of Princess Peye, a woman of the Sherbro people in what is now Sierra Leone. He was rescued, returned to sea and the trade, becoming Captain of several slave ships. After retiring from active sea-faring, he continued to invest in the slave trade. Some years after experiencing a conversion to Christianity, Newton later renounced his trade and became a prominent supporter of abolitionism. Now an evangelical, he was ordained as a Church of England cleric and served as parish priest at Olney, Buckinghamshire, for two decades and wrote hymns. Newton lived to see the British Empire's abolition of the African slave trade in 1807, just months before his death. (Wikipedia)
Amazing grace how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me I once was lost, but now I'm found Was blind but now I see. John Newton was completely changed when he saw the amaxing grace of Jesus Christ towards him personally.

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