A Review of Ecclesiastical History, Book I, ch. 2, in The Works of the Rev. John Newton, vol. 3 (New York: Williams and Whiting, 1810), p. 27

On the other hand, how readily our Lord received sinners, notorious sinners, who were vile to a proverb, appears from the remarkable account given by St. Luke of a woman whose character had been so infamous, that the Pha…