John Newton

Self-righteousness Can Feed upon Doctrines as Well as upon Works

July 30, 2024 1 min read

I am afraid there are Calvinists who while they account it a proof of their humility that they are willing in words to debase the creature and to give all the glory of salvation to the Lord yet know n

Academic Studies

August 15, 2022 2 min read

I truly pity those who rise early and study late-with no higher prize and prospect in view than the obtaining of academic honors Such pursuits will before long appear as they really are as vain as the

I Am a Riddle to Myself

March 14, 2022 2 min read

Dear friend Wickedness prevails and increases in our city to a dreadful degree Our streets are filled with the sons of Belial who neither fear God nor regard man I wish my heart was more affected with

Our Highest Wishes Shall be Crowned and Exceeded!

March 11, 2022 4 min read

Our most enlarged ideas of our future glory are faint and imperfect Who can describe or conceive the happiness of Heaven It will be as unlike as possible to this wilderness of sin and sorrow where we

Never Be Disappointed

January 4, 2022 3 min read

The LORD does whatever pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth in the seas and all their depths Psalm 135 6 My Dear Betsy How vain are all things here below Vanity of vanities says the preacher An

Self-Righteousness Can Feed Upon Doctrine as Well as Works

December 24, 2021 2 min read

There is a principle of self which disposes us to despise those who differ from us and we are often under its influence when we think we are only shewing a becoming zeal in the cause of God I readily

By the Same Light

November 19, 2021 2 min read

And we know that the son of God is come and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true 1 John 5 20 By nature the will is perverse and rebellious and the affections alienated from

The Christian's Heart is Open to Those Who Differ

October 19, 2021 3 min read

I thank my God Hearing of thy love and faith which thou hast toward the Lord Jesus and toward all saints Philemon 4-5 A Christian knows he is frail and therefore dares not be censorious As a member of

Were I to Define a Christian

September 9, 2021 2 min read

Were I to define a Christian or rather to describe him at large I know of no text I would choose sooner than Galatians 5 17 The sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit and the Spirit what

A Real Influence!

September 9, 2021 1 min read

Therefore if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation The old has passed away behold the new has come 2 Corinthians 5 17 The saving grace of God has a real influence upon the whole man It enlightens t

The Believer's Temper

September 7, 2021 2 min read

The Christian's temper God-ward is evidenced by humility He has received from Gethsemane and Golgotha such a sense of the evil of sin and of the holiness of God combined with his matchless love to sin

Washed in the Same Blood

September 7, 2021 2 min read

The principle of true love to the brethren is the love of God that love which produceth obedience 1 John 5 2 By this we know that we love the children of God when we love God and keep His commandments

A Testimony

September 7, 2021 1 min read

I would tell you how it is with me if I could at the best it would be an inconsistent account I am what I would not and would what I cannot I rejoice and mourn I stand fast and am thrown down in the s

The Law is a Test

September 4, 2021 1 min read

We use the law lawfully when we use it as a test whereby to judge of the exercise of grace Believers differ so much from what they once were and from what many still are that without this right use of

The Law

September 4, 2021 2 min read

The law is lawfully used as a means of conviction of sin for this purpose it was promulgated established at Sinai The law entered that sin might abound not to make men more wicked though occasionally

Cut Out the Blemishes and Call No Man Master

September 3, 2021 1 min read

When we eat an apple-we usually first cut out the blemishes then eat what is good and lastly throw the core away Such a rule I would observe in reading human authors-the best may be defective and the

All Men are Fallible

September 3, 2021 1 min read

Remember your exalted privilege-you have the Bible in your hands and are not bound to follow books or preachers any farther than what they teach agrees with the Oracles of Truth We have great reason t

When The Mower Comes

September 1, 2021 2 min read

Dear friend In preferring a warm heart to a full head you certainly judge by the rule of Scripture The Lord looks to the heart not to the stature the popularity the intellect the rank or wealth of a p

As Many Heads as Hydra

September 1, 2021 1 min read

My chief and abiding trial lies within and I hope that the Lord will sanctify it to make me by degrees 'little' in my own eyes I long to be able to use Job's words with the same feeling as I believe J

This Poor Worm is Secretly Indulging in Self-Applause!

September 1, 2021 3 min read

The LORD of hosts hath purposed it to stain the pride of all glory and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth Isaiah 23 9 Among the many general causes of decline in grace we may assig