You say, " It never came with power and life to my soul, that he died for me." If you mean, you never had any extraordinary sudden manifestation, something like a vision or a voice from heaven, confirming it to you, I can say the same. But I know he died for sinners; I know I am a sinner; I know he invites them that are ready to perish ; I am such a one; I know, upon his own invitation, I have committed myself to him : and I know, by the effects, that he has been with me hitherto, otherwise I should have been an apostate long ago: and therefore I know that he died for me; for had he been pleased to kill me (as he justly might have done), he would not have shown me such things as these.
John Newton — Cardiphonia; or, The Utterance of the Heart, in the Course of a Real Correspondence (Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication), Letter to Miss M. B., p. 215
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