Excerpt from The Life of the Rev. John Newton, Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth, London: Written by Himself to A. D. 1763, and Continued to His Death in 1807My mother Observed my early progress with peculiar pleasure, and intended, from the first, to bring me up with a view to the ministry, if it should please God to convert me by his grace, and incline my heart to the work. In my Sixth year I began to learn Latin; but before I had time to know much about it, the intended plan of my education was broken short. The Lord's designs were far beyond the views of an earthly parent: he was pleased to reserve me for unusual proof of his patience, providence and grace; and therefore overruled the purpose of my friends, by depriving me of this excellent parent when I was something under seven years old. Iwas born the 24th of July, 1725, and she died the 1lth of that month, 1732.

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