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Revision as of 19:29, 5 April 2015
Life
Born: 24 July 1725
Died: 21 December 1807
Biography
John Newton was an English clergyman and hymnwriter. Initially a sailor, he became the curate of Olney, Buckinghamshire in 1764. He collaborated with William Cowper on the hymnbook Olney Hymns, which was published in 1779, and became influential in the Evangelical movement.
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Musical settings of literary works
Settings of text by John Newton (hymnwriter)
- Abbot's Leigh (Andrew Sims)
- Amazing grace (Traditional)
- Beggar's Prayer (Jeremiah Ingalls)
- Begone unbelief (Jeremiah Ingalls)
- Berkley (1792) (Alexander Gillet)
- Bethsaida (Oliver Holden)
- Celestial Watering (Jeremiah Ingalls)
- The Christian's Warrant (Samuel Holyoke)
- Confidence (Joseph Funk)
- Glorious things of thee are spoken (Joseph Haydn)
- Good Physician (Oliver Holden)
- The Good Physician (William Walker)
- The Great Physician (Jeremiah Ingalls)
- Great Shepherd of thy people, hear (Anonymous)
- Great Shepherd of thy people, hear (Henry Walford Davies)
- Greensville (Reubin Monday)
- Greenwood (Joseph Funk)
- Harpeth (Alexander Johnson)
- Hephzibah (John Jenkins Husband)
- How sweet the name of Jesus sounds (Alexander Robert Reinagle)
- How sweet the name of Jesus sounds (Rod Mather)
- I saw one hanging from a tree (Thurlow Weed)
- Jefferson (Alexander Johnson)
- The Lord Will Provide (Jeremiah Ingalls)
- May the grace of Christ our Saviour (Heinrich Albert)
- Midsummer (William Walker)
- Mysterious Grace (Oliver Holden)
- Neglected Harp (Oliver Holden)
- Nixington (Nehemiah Shumway)
- Norfolk (Alexander Gillet)
- Omicron (Samuel Babcock)
- Pardoning Love (William Walker)
- Pittsgrove (Nehemiah Shumway)
- Placentia (Samuel Babcock)
- Safely through another week (Johann Friedrich Samuel Döring)
- Salem (William Moore)
- Sincerity (Oliver Holden)
- Stowe (Samuel Babcock)
- Suspension (Oliver Holden)
- Sweet Prospect (Stephen Jenks)
- Sweeter sounds than music knows (Rod Mather)
- The Tedious Hour (Jeremiah Ingalls)
- Watertown (Samuel Babcock)
Publications
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