Matthew Griffiths was a student at Bristol in 1799-1800. He was a “promising young man” and one that John Newton strongly recommended to Samuel Pearce his attending the Bristol Academy. The details are as of yet unknown to me but… Continue Reading
My usefulness was the last idol I was willing to give up; But now I thank the Lord, I can part with that also, and am content to be anything or nothing, so that His wise and holy will may… Continue Reading
John Newton explains the work of grace in the believers soul as more like a mighty oak tree than Jonah’s gourd which sprang up overnight. By “work of grace” Newton does not mean only initial conversion but the entire process… Continue Reading
After writing at length about discovering sin daily in his life and then lamenting that though he can see that his heart “is very deep and dark, and full of evil; but as to particulars, I know not one of… Continue Reading