By John Newton.
Man in his Fallen Estate.
Letters by John Newton.
John Newton’s early life:
John Newton was born in Wapping, London, in 1725, the son of John Newton the Elder, a shipmaster in the Mediterranean service, and Elizabeth (née Scatliff). Elizabeth was the only daughter of Simon Scatliff, an instrument maker from London.
Elizabeth was brought up as a Nonconformist. She died of tuberculosis (then called consumption) in July 1732, about two weeks before her son’s seventh birthday. Newton spent two years at a boarding school, before going to live at Aveley in Essex, the home of his father’s new wife.
At age eleven he first went to sea with his father. Newton sailed six voyages before his father retired in 1742. At that time, Newton’s father made plans for him to work at a sugarcane plantation in Jamaica. Instead, Newton signed on with a merchant ship sailing to the Mediterranean Sea.
Contents of this book:
– Man in his fallen estate.
– Indwelling sin and the believer.
– That bitter root, indwelling sin!
– Addressing the unconverted.
– Blinded by satan.
– When we see the worldinflames!
– The history of mankind.
– Little trials.