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The story behind the simods. Sublime
Grace of the Lord that an unhappy saved

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I was blinder today I look lost
and he found me. Written two hundred

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and forty- four years ago by
a converted sinner. Sublime Gracia is a

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Christian song transformed into a universal song, recorded by the most famous musicians and

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singers of history. A theme that
conveys a message. Forgiveness and redemption is

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possible through God' s grace to
massing Grace or Sublime Grace is much more

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than a Christian song. It was
written two hundred and forty- four years

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ago, in times when Vinilo'
s album did not exist, Thomas Alva

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Edison' s phonograph and the music
industry Today sounds played by percent of singers

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of all genres. In the most
planned versions it has become a universal anthem

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to convey a message that the forgiveness
and redemption of sins is possible through the

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grace of God in a world under
construction. An existence, that of the

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English poet John Newton, appeared full
of contradictions and existential conflicts of that black

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and white life, born an immortal
hymn, the testimony of an era and

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of all times. The song was
created in a thousand seven hundred and seventy

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- three product of an individual experience
and over time gained an unsuspected dimension.

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Newton, born in seven hundred and
twenty- five in London, was the

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creator of Masing Grace, a sailor, a wicked blasphemer, a slave trader,

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a sinner without religious formation. Thus
it was in much of his life

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that man transformed into words the eternal
supplication of mankind for salvation. His Christianization

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occurred on a March night of a
thousand seven hundred and forty- eight,

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as a storm struck his whim the
boat in which he sailed, cried out

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for the help of the Most High
and outlined the beginning of his spiritual conversion.

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According to a biography of Newton written
by Jonathan Atkin, the memory of

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that storm, mixed with the songs
of the African slaves he was carrying on

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his merchant ship began to obsess,
so that then he began to question whether

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he was worthy of the grace of
God, after having been a tenacious opponent

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of Christ, after mocking other believers, ridiculed his rites and even described it

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as med time later, he was
convinced that Jesus Christ had sent him a

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message. However, his surrender to
the almighty was not immediate. Newton continued

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some more years devoted to worldly life. He married Mary Poly Cattlet and remained

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tied to the slave market. It
was from a thousand seven hundred and fifty

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- six that Newton dedicated his life
to the Lord. In the first instance

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he learned Greek Latin and theology.
Then sponsored by George Lege the third Earl

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of Darth Mauth, he was ordained
by the Bishop of Lincoln and took the

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church of Olney, Buckingham Shire in
a thousand seven hundred and sixty- four.

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In his pastoral mission to break the
hard hearts and heal the broken,

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he began to compose chants using the
popular language of his parishioners and became friends

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with William Copper with him. According
to the writer Adken, he wrote at

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the end of a thousand seven hundred
and seventy- two sublime GSS for the

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New Year prayer of a thousand seven
hundred and seventy- three. He had

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the lyrics, but he was missing
the music. He recalled the tonadas of

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black slaves carrying his ship and thus
the Christian hymn was born. Six years

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later, the song was published anonymously
in a collection of poems by Newton and

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Copper under Olney' s anthems.
The impact was immediate. Newton' s

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work became a praise used by evangelical
preachers in Britain. Then he would travel

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to the United States and during the
so- called Second Great Awakening, a

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time of Christian revival that lasted between
a thousand seven hundred and ninety- eight

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hundred and forty used the theme as
a powerful evangelizing tool.