On 20 June 1776 Anglican clergyman and hymnwriter John Newton wrote in a letter: 'A Christian is not of hasty growth...but rather like the oak, the progress of which is hardly perceptible, but in time becomes a deep-rooted tree.'
BTW according to Jonathan Aitken's biography Newton was in danger of rebuke from his patron, a government minister, when his sympathies were with the 1776 rebels.
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