Cardiphonia

NEWTON, John. Gods genade en vrijmagtig albestuur, ontdekt in de zeldzaame levensgevallen, langduurige en merkwaardige reizen, en zonderlinge bekeering, in XIV. brieven aan T. Haweis. Uit het Engelsch vertaald. Derde druk; uitgegeeven, bij den tweeden druk, met eene korte voorreden, door Cornelis Brem. Amsterdam, Martinus de Bruijn, 1792.
New edition of a collection of autobiographical letters by John Newton (1725-1807), English divine and friend of the poet Cowper. John Newton had led a rather eventful life at sea, among others sailing on a slaver and working for a slave-trader on one of the Plantane islands. But on one of his home voyages during a terrible storm in 1748, Newton experienced a deep religious feeling and to the end of his days he kept the "anniversary of his conversion". When he stopped with his life at sea, in 1754, because of ill-health, he became surveyor of the tides at Liverpool. But he had already taught himself the books of Euclid and learned to read Virgile, Terence, Livy and Erasmus in Latin, and could quote Horace by heart. He met with Whitefield, and started to learn Greek and a little Syriac to study the bible, wanting to become a clergyman, but the archbishop of York turned him down. Then in 1863 he is introduced by Dr. Haweis, rector of Aldwinkle, to the Evangelical Lord Dartmouth and is ordained a priest. His first charge was the curacy of Olney and in 1764 he also published the first of his many books, "The Authentic Narrative" of his life at sea. It made him very popular at his church and with the reading public. In 1781 he published his most famous work, a collection of spiritual letters under the title "Cardiphonia", which was also translated into Dutch. The present letters to Haweis telling about his life and adventures was first published in Dutch in 1767, then they were forgotten, but after "Cardiphonia" was published the letters to Haweis became in popular demand again, and were published anew with a Dutch introduction in 1784. Completely sold out, the present third edition was published unchanged, because the author's history of the church in the first centuries of christianity was in the process of being published as well.
Good copy.
Cf. Knuttel, <I>Ned. Bibliogr. Kerkgesch. </I>p. 236 (the author's church history);<I> Bibl. Theol. & Philos.</I> 11469-11473 (Engl. ed. of "Cardiphonia", and Dutch translations of other works).

Sm. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with title lettered in gold on spine. 174 pp.

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NEWTON, John (1725-1807, rector of St. Mary-Woolnoth): Cardiphonia, gemeenzame brieven.meestal geschreven aan Godvruchtige vrienden .ter hunne Godvruchtige vrienden en bestuuring op den weg des geloofs en der godvrucht uit het Engelsch vertaald door M van Werkhoven en uitgegeven met een voorrede door Cornelis Brem deel 1-2 derdedruk waarbij deel 3 Cardiphonia,of vervolg van gemeenzame brieven zijnde deezen geschreven aan zijne EGTGENOOTE gedurende drie reizen naar AFRIKA in de jaren 1750 tot 1754 en bij volgende afweezigheid inb ENGELAND benevens een kort verhaal van haare laatste ziekte en Godvruchtrig afsterven. AMSTERDAM, Martinus de Bruyn, 1792-94.

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Scott, Thomas. 1747-1821: De kracht der waarheid : zeer aanmerkelijk gebleeken in de overtuiging en bekeering van den eerwaardigen heer Thomas Scott, predikant te Weston Underwood en Ravenstone , in Engeland : aan wien eenigen der belangrijkste brieven van Newton, in zijne Cardiphonia, geericht zijn geweest / Thomas Scott ; uit het Engelsch vert. door Marinus van Werkhoven en uitg. met eene voorrede door Cornelis Brem.

Amsterdam, Martinus de Bruyn, 1786. XXIV, 173 pp. original marbled boards. spine slightly damaged, but a very good copy. First Dutch translation of the The forth of truth. 1779 , translation by. Marinus van Werkhoven 1779-1792 fl.; Cornelis Brem ca. 1722-1803. KEYWORDS: literature

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Newton, J. Cardiphonia, ou correspondance de J.Newton, recteur de Saint-Mary-Woolnoth. Traduit de langlais par le traducteur D'Omicron. Paris. Risler. 1831.
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2 Vols. Hleather. 360;351p. 12°. f

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