John Newton's Messiah Sermons
The transcripts on this website are previously unpublished, from Newton's personal notebook [1]
The full section (which can also be accessed from the navigation panel to the left):
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JNP Introduction |
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Some background into how the sermon series on Messiah arose, and the difference between the unedited ms transcripts on this website and the printed version of 50 sermons (with a link to the printed version) |
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Newton's Introduction |
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In his printed version, Newton absorbed much of this into his first sermon, but also added in a Preface |
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Sermons: |
No. 1 |
Isaiah 40:1,2 |
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No. 2 |
Isaiah 40:3-5 |
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No. 3 |
Haggai 2:6,7 |
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No. 4 |
Malachi 3:1-3 |
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No. 5 |
Isaiah 7:14 |
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No. 6 |
Isaiah 40:9 |
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No. 7 |
Isaiah 60:1-3 |
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No. 8 |
Isaiah 9:2 |
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No. 9 |
Isaiah 9:6 |
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No. 10 |
Luke 2:8-14 |
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No. 11 |
Zechariah 9:9,10 |
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No. 12 |
Isaiah 35:5,6 |
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Appendix: |
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extract from William Cowper's Task, in which he writes about the 1784 Commemoration of Handel |
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Alexander Pope's Ecologue, referred to by Newton in Sermon No. 3 |
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Handel's and Newton's texts, side-by-side, linking Newton's sermons to the appropriate aria |
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Handel & Newton's timelines, showing how they overlap |
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Messiah Resources: |
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Newton script, interweaving extracts from his Messiah sermons with Handel's Messiah Part 2 (The Passion), as used for the 2010 Gloucester Cathedral Messiah by Mr Handel & Mr Newton, and at the 2014 Handel's Messiah, A Celebration of God's Amazing Grace, at Milligan Christian College, Johnson City, Tennessee |
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Bible Studies based on Messiah, suitable for a 5-week Lent course, or any time |
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Messiah videos: invitations from Timothy Dudley-Smith and Alec Motyer to the 1010 Messiah by Mr Handel and Mr Netwon at Gloucester Cathedral; videos by the London Symphony Orchestra, appropriate to Newton's sermons here |
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We encourage you to use the material on this website to produce your own Newton-Handel Messiah – see more about this under Messiah Resources. As Newton predicted, and as as we have found true, |
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If the Lord the Spirit is pleased to smile upon the attempt, pleasure and profit will go hand in hand. |
Endnotes:
Acknowledgements:
Cowper & Newton Museum, Olney |
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