This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own a…

John Newton
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This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus. ✨ John Newton (1808). The works of the rev. John Newton, p.572
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This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus. ✨ John Newton (1808). The works of the rev. John Newton, p.572

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