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On 8 May, after four weeks of being buffeted by rough seas, they finally saw Tory Island and the following day dropped anchor in Lough Swilly on the north east coast of Donegal, just in time before the storm blew up again.

“If we had continued at sea that night in our shattered condition, we must have gone to the bottom. About this time I began to know that there is a God that hears and answers prayer,” Newton wrote of the harrowing experience.'
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Newton slowly turned his life around, giving up his life as a slave trader, and dedicating himself to religious life as an Anglican clergyman. Among the hymns he wrote in his Church of England parish in Buckinghamshire, was Amazing Grace, which described his own spiritual journey and went on to become one of the world\'s most famous Christian hymns, sung an estimated 10 million times annually.

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