Wise Counsel: John Newton's Letters to John Ryland, Jr. Paul Wolfe were at the forefront in

were at the forefront in the struggle for liberty of conscience and freedom of worship

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Born in England in 1886

but he is almost uniformly good

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Wise Counsel: John Newton's Letters to John Ryland, Jr. Paul Wolfe were at the forefront inJohn Newton (1725 1807) has rightly been called the letter writer par excellence of the Evangelical Revival'. Newton himself seems to have come to the conclusion, albeit reluctantly, that letter writing was his greatest gift. In a letter to a friend he confessed, I rather reckoned upon doing more good by some of my other works than by my Letters', which I wrote without study, or any public design; but the Lord said, You shall be most useful by them,'