“for,” he said, “if I read, ‘God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that’ when John Newton believed he ‘should have Everlasting Life,’ I should say, perhaps, there is some other John Newton; but "whosoever” means this John Newton and the other John Newton, and everybody else, whatever his name may be.“ – John Newton (http://ping.fm/cTzXh)