"Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound)
That sav'd a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see."
John Newton (1725-1807), British curate and hymn-writer. "Faith's Review and Expectation," hymn #XLII, book i, pp.54-55, l. 1-4, Olney Hymns, In Three Books, London, W. Oliver (1779).
His epitaph reads that he was "once an infidel and libertine." |
"Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion city of our God!
He, whose word cannot be broken, Form'd for thee his own abode:
On the rock of ages founded, What can shake thy sure repose?
With salvation's walls surrounded Thou may'st smile at all thy foes."
John Newton (1725-1807), British curate and hymn-writer. "Zion, or the City of God," hymn #LX, book i, pp. 75-77, l. 1-4, Olney Hymns, In Three Books, London, W. Oliver (1779).
Based on Isaiah 33:20-21. |
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