On a trip to the Cowper and Newton Museum in Olney, Bucks., Marylynn Rouse discovered two pocket notebooks in John Newton's handwriting, labelled Vols. 4 and 5, containing lectures 31-58 on Romans 8. 26-34. These long-lost Bible studies have now been published for the first time by Christian Focus under the title The Searcher of Hearts. We print here an extract. Marylynn also says that if anyone knows the whereabouts of other notebooks from Newton's series, she would be very glad to hear from them.
'Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.' (Romans 8.33)
Every clause, every word in this challenge of faith is full of meaning and would open a wide field to our meditations, notwithstanding we have had occasion to speak of the same subjects from the former verses.
