The story behind the simods. Sublime Grace of the Lord that an unhappy saved
I was blinder today I look lost and he found me. Written two hundred
and forty- four years ago by a converted sinner. Sublime Gracia is a
Christian song transformed into a universal song, recorded by the most famous musicians and
singers of history. A theme that conveys a message. Forgiveness and redemption is
possible through God' s grace to massing Grace or Sublime Grace is much more
than a Christian song. It was written two hundred and forty- four years
ago, in times when Vinilo' s album did not exist, Thomas Alva
Edison' s phonograph and the music industry Today sounds played by percent of singers
of all genres. In the most planned versions it has become a universal anthem
to convey a message that the forgiveness and redemption of sins is possible through the
grace of God in a world under construction. An existence, that of the
English poet John Newton, appeared full of contradictions and existential conflicts of that black
and white life, born an immortal hymn, the testimony of an era and
of all times. The song was created in a thousand seven hundred and seventy
- three product of an individual experience and over time gained an unsuspected dimension.
Newton, born in seven hundred and twenty- five in London, was the
creator of Masing Grace, a sailor, a wicked blasphemer, a slave trader,
a sinner without religious formation. Thus it was in much of his life
that man transformed into words the eternal supplication of mankind for salvation. His Christianization
occurred on a March night of a thousand seven hundred and forty- eight,
as a storm struck his whim the boat in which he sailed, cried out
for the help of the Most High and outlined the beginning of his spiritual conversion.
According to a biography of Newton written by Jonathan Atkin, the memory of
that storm, mixed with the songs of the African slaves he was carrying on
his merchant ship began to obsess, so that then he began to question whether
he was worthy of the grace of God, after having been a tenacious opponent
of Christ, after mocking other believers, ridiculed his rites and even described it
as med time later, he was convinced that Jesus Christ had sent him a
message. However, his surrender to the almighty was not immediate. Newton continued
some more years devoted to worldly life. He married Mary Poly Cattlet and remained
tied to the slave market. It was from a thousand seven hundred and fifty
- six that Newton dedicated his life to the Lord. In the first instance
he learned Greek Latin and theology. Then sponsored by George Lege the third Earl
of Darth Mauth, he was ordained by the Bishop of Lincoln and took the
church of Olney, Buckingham Shire in a thousand seven hundred and sixty- four.
In his pastoral mission to break the hard hearts and heal the broken,
he began to compose chants using the popular language of his parishioners and became friends
with William Copper with him. According to the writer Adken, he wrote at
the end of a thousand seven hundred and seventy- two sublime GSS for the
New Year prayer of a thousand seven hundred and seventy- three. He had
the lyrics, but he was missing the music. He recalled the tonadas of
black slaves carrying his ship and thus the Christian hymn was born. Six years
later, the song was published anonymously in a collection of poems by Newton and
Copper under Olney' s anthems. The impact was immediate. Newton' s
work became a praise used by evangelical preachers in Britain. Then he would travel
to the United States and during the so- called Second Great Awakening, a
time of Christian revival that lasted between a thousand seven hundred and ninety- eight
hundred and forty used the theme as a powerful evangelizing tool.