Excerpt from The Works of the Rev. John Newton, Late Pastor of the United Parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolchurch-Haw, Lombard Street, London, Vol. 1 of 2: Containing, an Authentic Narrative, Etc. Letters on Religious Subjects, Cardiphonia, Discourses Intended for the Pulpit, Sermons Preached in the Parish Church of Olney, a Review of Ecclesiastical History, Olney Hymns, Poems, Messiah, Occasional SermonsHis heart being now riveted to a particular object, every thing with which he was concerned appeared in a new light. He could not now bear the thought of living at such a distance as Jamaica, for four or five years, and therefore deter mined not to go thither. He dared not communicate with his father on this point, but, instead of three days, he staid three weeks in Kent till the ship had sailed, and then he returned to London.

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