THE EVIL A BELIEVER WOULD NOT DO – IF HE COULD
A letter from John Newton to Lord Dartmouth dated March 1772.
My Lord,
I think my last letter turned upon the apostle’s thought, Galatians 5:17, “You cannot do the things that you would.” In the parallel place, Romans 7:19, there is another clause subjoined, “The evil which I would not do, that I do.” This, added to the former, would complete the dark side of my experience. Permit me to tell your lordship a little part, (for some things mus