the apostle’s letter to Titus sounds a strongly ethical and evangelistic note in its emphasis on upright living
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Obstacles to Revivals
Letters of John Newton E. J. Young the apostle’s letter to TitusJohn Newton (1725 1807), converted slave trader, preacher, and hymn writer, was one of the most colourful figures in the Evangelical Awakening of the eighteenth century. Once an infidel and libertine, a servant of slaves in Africa', he once wrote for his epitaph, by the rich mercy of Jesus Christ, preserved, restored, pardoned, and appointed to preach the faith he had long laboured to destroy.' It was through his prolific correspondence that Newton