"The Hymns are distributed into three Books...

The third Book is miscellaneous, comprising a variety of subjects relative to a life of faith in the Son of God, which have no express reference either to a single text of Scripture, or to any determinate season or incident. These are farther subdivided into distinct heads."

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No.	first line	subtitle	MS No.	for this date
	1. SOLEMN ADDRESSES TO SINNERS
4	Sinner, art thou still secure?	Judgment	208	18 June 1775
5	Sinner, hear the Saviour's call	Invitation	324	25 October 1778
	2. SEEKING, PLEADING AND HOPING
7	O Lord, how vile am I	Lord help me	215	13 August 1775
9	My soul is beset	Encouragement	229	24 December 1775
14	Does the gospel-word proclaim	Rest for weary Souls	236	17 March 1776
	3. CONFLICT
32	Though sore beset with guilt and fear	Hope in the darkness	205	21 May 1775
34	When the poor prisoner through a grate	The Prisoner	248	7 July 1776
35	Uncertain how the way to find	Perplexity relieved	308	29 March 1778
37	Begone unbelief	Fear not	183	13 November 1774
38	If to Jesus for relief	Questions to Unbelief	199	12 March 1775
40	Be still my heart! these anxious cares	Why art thou cast down O my Soul?	203	30 April 1775
	4. COMFORT
43	Sight, hearing, feeling, taste and smell	Faith a new Sense	179	[October 1774?]
53	Oh, speak that gracious word again	Peace Restored	202	7 May 1775
54	Saved by blood I live to tell	Hear what he has done for my soul	222	5 November 1775
55	While I lived without the Lord	Freedom from care	247	23 June 1776
56	When the wounded spirit hears	Humiliation & praise	242	12 May 1776
58	As when the weary traveller gains	Home in view	310	12 April 1778
	5. DEDICATION AND SURRENDER
66	Fix my heart and eyes on thine!	True Happiness	218	8 October 1775
67	Ten thousand talents once I owed	The happy Debter	244	2 June 1776
	6. CAUTIONS
77	Destruction's dangerous road	Are there few that shall be saved	243	19 May 1776
78	The wishes that the sluggard frames	The Sluggard	326	8 November 1778
79	How soon the Saviour's gracious call	Efficacy of Grace	240	[14 April 1776]
	7. PRAISE
87	Prepare a thankful song	Praise to the Redeemer	214	30 July 1775 [?]
88	Lord, what is man! extremes how wide	Man by Nature, by Grace & in Glory	291	21 December 1777
	8. SHORT HYMNS
90	Now, Lord, inspire the preacher's heart	Before sermon		[c. 22-29 November 1778]
91	Thy promise, Lord, and thy command	Before sermon		[c. January/February 1779?]
92	Hungry, and faint, and poor	Before sermon		[c. January/February 1779?]
93	Remember us, we pray thee, Lord	Before sermon		[c. January/February 1779?]
94	Not to Sinai's dreadful blaze	Before sermon		[c. January/February 1779?]
95	Often thy public means of grace	Before sermon		[c. January/February 1779?]
96	With Israel's God who can compare?	After sermon		[c. January/February 1779?]
98	We seek a rest beyond the skies	After sermon		[c. 22-29 November 1778]
100	Now may He who from the dead	After sermon		[c. 22-29 November 1778]
101	May the grace of Christ our Saviour	After sermon		[c. 22-29 November 1778]
102	The peace which God alone reveals	After sermon		[c. 22-29 November 1778]

Newton concluded his ms notebook with great relief:
 

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Hymn: MS Eng 1317, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Princeton University, John Newton Diary, CO199