[27] Ibid., p. 89.

[28] The Works of the Rev. John Newton, Vol. 1, p. 170.

[29] Richard Cecil, Memoirs of the Rev. John Newton, p. 95.

[30] The Works of the Rev. John Newton, Vol. 5, p. 132, emphasis added.

[31] Richard Cecil, The Life of John Newton, edited by Marylynn Rousse (Fearn, Ross-shire, Great Britain: Christian Focus Publications, 2000). p. 351. He had a special concern for sailors and lamented their neglect in evangelism and Christian publishing. He eventually wrote a preface for a devotional book designed especially for sailors. See Richard Cecil, The Life of John Newton, edited by Marylynn Rousse, pp. 76-77, 347-348.

[32] Richard Cecil, The Life of John Newton, edited by Marylynn Rousse, p. 143.

[33] Josiah Bull, "But Now I See": The Life of John Newton, (Edinburgh: The Banner of to Truth Trust, 1998, original 1868), pp. 336-367.

[34] Richard Cecil, Memoirs of the Rev. John Newton, p. 92.

[35] Richard Cecil, The Life of John Newton, edited by Marylynn Rousse, p. 139, emphasis added.

[36] Richard Cecil, Memoirs of the Rev. John Newton, p. 95.

[37] Richard Cecil, The Life of John Newton, edited by Marylynn Rousse, p. 125.

[38] Ibid.

[39] Richard Cecil, The Life of John Newton, edited by Marylynn Rousse, pp. 129-130.

[40] Ibid., p. 282.

[41] Ibid., p. 184.

[42] Richard Cecil, Memoirs of the Rev. John Newton, p. 67.

[43] Richard Cecil, Memoirs of the Rev. John Newton, p. 101.

[44] The Works of the Rev. John Newton, Vol. 1, p. 164.

[45] Richard Cecil, Memoirs of the Rev. John Newton, p. 101.

[46] Ibid., p. 106. In a letter to a friend he warned that if, we do not look continually to the Lord, controversy will obstruct communion with God. "Though you set out in defense of the cause of God, if you are not continually looking to the Lord to keep you , it may become your own cause and awaken in you those tempers which are inconsistent with true peace of mind and will surely obstruct communion with God" (The Works of the Rev. John Newton, Vol. 1, pp. 273-274).

[47] Richard Cecil, Memoirs of the Rev. John Newton, p. 100.

[48] The Works of the Rev. John Newton, Vol. 3, p. 303.

[49] Ibid.

[50] The Works of the Rev. John Newton, Vol. 5, p. 131. Newton took Ephesians 4:15 ("speaking the truth in love") as his inaugural text when he came to St. Mary's (The Works of the Rev. John Newton, Vol. 5, pp. 126-136). Richard Cecil describes how this text was fleshed out in Newton's ministry: "His zeal in propagating the truth . . . was not more conspicuous, than the tenderness of the spirit as to the manner of his maintaining and delivering it. He was found constantly speaking the truth in love; and in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves, if God peradventure would give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth. There was a gentleness, a candour, and a forbearance in him, that I do not recollect to have seen in an equal degree among his brethren . . ." (Richard Cecil, Memoirs of the Rev. John Newton, p. 122).

[51] The Works of the Rev. John Newton, Vol. 1, p. 271.

[52] Ibid., p. 269.

[53] D. Bruce Hindmarsh, "'I Am a Sort of Middle-Man,'" p. 52.

[54] Ibid.

[55] William S. Plummer, The Christian, to which is added, False Doctrines and False Teachers: How to Know Them and How to Treat Them (Harrisonburg, VA: Sprinkle Publications, 1997), p. 22.

[56] D. Bruce Hindmarsh, "'I Am a Sort of Middle-Man,'" p. 53.