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Name: |
Newton, John |
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dob: |
24 July 1725 Old Style |
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4 August 1725 New Style |
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address: |
1725 – c. 1732 |
Red Lyon Street, Wapping |
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c.1733 – 1736 |
Marshfoot House, Aveley |
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c. 1745 |
Rotherhithe |
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1742 – 1745 |
HMS Harwich |
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1745 – 1747 |
Plantain Island, Sierra Leone |
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1748 |
10 March OS (21 March NS): in a violent storm, my address was "Lord, have mercy". Oh it was mercy indeed, to save a wretch like me. My position then: Atlantic Ocean, c. 54 degrees latitude, 200 leagues W of Ireland. |
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1748-1754 |
at sea (in several respects) |
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1754 – 1755 |
Chatham High Street and possibly Five Bells Lane |
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1755 – 1764 |
Edmund Street, Liverpool (corner of Old Hall Street) |
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1764 – 1780 |
(Old) Vicarage, Church Street, Olney |
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1780 – 1786 |
No. 13 Charles Square, Hoxton (later renumbered 17) |
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1786 – 1807 |
No. 6 Coleman Street Buildings, London |
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1807 - |
in heavenly love abiding |
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contact: |
Try 365 days with Newton and Ministry on my mind for personal rapport |
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email: |
admin@johnnewton.org |
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website: |
www.johnnewton.org |
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education: |
0 - 6 years |
home school |
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6 - 8 years |
running amock in Aveley marshes, mingling with careless and profane children |
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9 - 10 years |
private school, Stratford, Essex: 1st year disastrous, 2nd OK |
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“O Lord I am a slow learner” |
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[subsequently self-taught in French, Latin, Hebrew, Greek, Syriac, German, shorthand. Ed.] |
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work experience: |
(voluntary and involuntary) |
cabin boy; merchant seaman; fired apprentice; able seaman; not-so-able seaman; naval deserter; slave; factory manager; supernumerary; first mate; captain; unemployed; customs official; hymnologist; author; preacher; pastor; linguist; journalist; correspondent; mentor; tutor to Oxbridge students; curate-in-charge; rector; founder and catalyst in the foundation of several missionary societies |
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qualifications: |
“This is my qualification: the very chief of sinners.” 1 January 1758 |
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“And yet in one sense I have a fitness to spread the glad tidings of salvation which few can pretend to. If ever thou permittest me to declare that faithful saying, Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners; surely the words, of whom I am chief, would be peculiarly expressive and convincing in my mouth. I could stand forth and propose myself instead of a thousand arguments in proof of the doctrine, and might well hope to be of singular use as a pattern of thy longsuffering to all that should repent and believe.” 24 June 1758 |
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ordained deacon |
17 April 1764, Bishop of Lincoln |
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ordained priest (presbyter) |
24 June 1764, Bishop of Lincoln |
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Honorary Doctorate |
conferred by New Jersey College, 1791 (now Princeton University) |
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promoted to glory |
21 December 1807 “about quarter past eight in the evening” |
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other competencies: |
Languages: |
It may be proper to tell you that French books will serve me as well as English or Latin |
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interests: |
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praying in the fields; making paper boats |
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skills: |
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I pray for spiritual skill, that I might be made useful |
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publications: |
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I am called to publish thy Gospel |
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references: |
Claudius Buchanan |
"If he had been my father, he could not have expressed more solicitude for my welfare." |
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William Carey |
"contributed much to my support and encouragement" |
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Andrew Fuller |
"He is a father, and so full of love and kindness that I know not what to do with him." |
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Sir James Stephen |
“One of the second founders of the Church of England” |
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John Wesley |
"One of eminent learning as well as unblameable character" |
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