John Newton Quotes About Scripture

• Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide.

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  John Newton (1839). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c”, p.113

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• I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. We shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with His spiritual ointment.

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  John Newton (1824). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ...”, p.466

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• If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.

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• We have no clear ideas of the agency of [demonic] spirits, nor is it necessary. The Scripture says little to satisfy our curiosity; but tells us plainly that he is always watching us, and desiring to sift us as wheat. I believe we give him no more than his due, when we charge him with having a hand in all our sins. I believe he cuts us all out abundance of work.

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