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The aged pilgrim's triumph over sin and the grave
The aged pilgrim's triumph over sin and the grave Author:John Newton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: or in company, read or write, just as I please. I want nothing but more thankfulness to the Lord, and more intimate communion with Him. It is a mercy to know tha... more »t these are things above all others truly desirable. Accept my best love and thanks, and believe me to be Your affectionate and obliged servant, JOHN NEWTON. P., near L., 12th August, 1784. LETTER III. STY DEAR SIR, The first office I intended for my silver pen, was to give you information of our safe arrival in Charles'- Square. Accordingly I now hansel it. I will not search for silver words to express our thanks to you and Mrs. T. for your great kindness; suffice it to say that we love you dearly. May the Lord, for whose sake you took us strangers in, reward you. But words of gold would not be sufficient to express the praise due to our good and great Shepherd, who led us out in peace, was with us by the way in our journey, and brought us home in safety. He preserved our habitation likewise, and those whom we left behind, so that we saw or heard nothing upon our return to cause uneasiness. We reached Hook in about three hours after we left yon, and arrived at home a little before four. My dear's head is not quite well to-day. Eliza was a little fatigued, but a dish or rather many dishes of tea, refreshed us. We unite in making up a parcel of our best love to you, Mrs. T., and all your young people,with our hearty thanks to each and all of them, for the kindness they shewed us. I seem at present a stranger even at home, but by to-morrow (I hope) my thoughts will get into their own channel, and I hope (and beg your prayers for it) that the Lord will enable me to benefit by the recollection of what I have seen or heard while abroad. My late excursion was very pleasant, but I ought to wish it may be mad...« less