Selected Spiritual Writings of Anne Dutton: LettersWomen theologians in the eighteenth century were a rarity. Were there no other reason, this alone would make the literary legacy of the Baptist Anne (Williams) Dutton (1692-1765) significant. In 1731, Anne and her minister husband, Benjamin Dutton, settled in Great Gransden, Huntingdonshire. After Benjamin's death, Anne became known on both sides of the Atlantic primarily through her extensive writings, including tracts, treatises, poems, hymns, and letters. Among her many correspondents were Howel Harris, Selina Hastings, William Seward, Phillip Doddridge, John Wesley, and George Whitefield. Harris believed God had entrusted her "with a Talent of writing for Him." Whitefield, who helped promote and publish Anne's writings, commented upon meeting her that "her conversation is as weighty as her letters." She wrestled with the question of whether it was "biblical" for a woman to be a writer of theological matters. But in a tract entitled "A Letter to such of the Servants of Christ, who may have any scruple about the Lawfulness of Printing any thing written by a Woman" (1743), she stated that she wrote not for herself but "only the glory of God and the good of souls." Dutton's writings impacted evangelical revival in England and America. Not since 1884 have any of her writings been readily available. Now extensive portions of her letters, her tracts and booklets, and her poetry and hymns are once again available. |
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... infinite Merit of Christ's Blood , and the Glory of his Advocacy lessened in your Sight : And your constant Life of Faith , and Increase in Holiness interrupted . If you do not commit Sin daily ; you cannot pray for the daily ...
... infinite Merit of Christ's Blood , and the Glory of his Advocacy lessened in your Sight : And your constant Life of Faith , and Increase in Holiness interrupted . If you do not commit Sin daily ; you cannot pray for the daily ...
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... infinite Condescension ! amazing Wonder ! For GOD , the Three - One GOD , hath chosen Zion , the Church , and every particular Believer , for his Habitation : This is my Rest for ever : saith he , here will I dwell , for I have desired ...
... infinite Condescension ! amazing Wonder ! For GOD , the Three - One GOD , hath chosen Zion , the Church , and every particular Believer , for his Habitation : This is my Rest for ever : saith he , here will I dwell , for I have desired ...
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... infinite Glory of the Divine Being , in a Way of special Grace and Mercy to the Elected ; and of common Goodness and Forbearance to the Rejected ; and also , for the Abuse of the same , of strict Justice and righteous Wrath towards them ...
... infinite Glory of the Divine Being , in a Way of special Grace and Mercy to the Elected ; and of common Goodness and Forbearance to the Rejected ; and also , for the Abuse of the same , of strict Justice and righteous Wrath towards them ...
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... infinite Wisdom and Grace found for them a Ransom . He found for them his own Son , to die for them that they might live . He substituted him in their Room . He call'd him to bear their Sin , to be made their Curse , to endure their ...
... infinite Wisdom and Grace found for them a Ransom . He found for them his own Son , to die for them that they might live . He substituted him in their Room . He call'd him to bear their Sin , to be made their Curse , to endure their ...
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... infinite Merit of his own Death ; and he'll save them to the Enjoyment of it , by the Power of his Life for them at God's Right Hand ; maugre all Opposition , in spite of all their Enemies . His boundless Love , in which he once dy'd ...
... infinite Merit of his own Death ; and he'll save them to the Enjoyment of it , by the Power of his Life for them at God's Right Hand ; maugre all Opposition , in spite of all their Enemies . His boundless Love , in which he once dy'd ...
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XXX | 177 |
XXXI | 179 |
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LXV | 303 |
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LXIX | 320 |
LXX | 323 |
LXXI | 330 |
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LXXIII | 336 |
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LXXVII | 353 |
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LXXX | 357 |
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Page 53 - For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world ; looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Page xxxii - The Lord shall open unto thee His good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand : and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.
Page 22 - The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him : but his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob...
Page xliv - And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not, I will lead them in paths that they have not known : I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake . them.
Page 24 - Now therefore be not grieved, nor angry with yourselves, that ye sold me hither : for God did send me before you to preserve life.
Page xxxi - And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together ; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.
Page xxvii - Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage ? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.
Page 54 - My soul shall make her boast in the Lord; the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord, and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears.
Page xliii - That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us : and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ.
Page 11 - Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham ; for a father of many nations have I made thee.