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Anne Dutton (1692–1765) was an English poet and Calvinist Baptist writer on religion.[1] She published around 50 titles and corresponded with George Whitefield and John Wesley. Dutton's Narration of the Wonders of Grace (1734) was a 1500-line poem in heroic couplets, complete with marginal references to Scripture, reviewing redemption history from the point of view of Calvinist Baptists. (A modern scholar has called it "execrable verse, interesting only as testimony to the mental tilt of a particular kind of zealot".[3]) In her correspondence with Wesley she differed with him over the question of Election. A Brief Account of the Negroes Converted to Christ in America was one of 13 tracts and letters she published in 1743 alone. George Whitfield was another recipient of her work.
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Anne Dutton preaches about finding strength in the Lord Jehovah, emphasizing that our great strength lies not in ourselves but in Jesus. She encourages believers to draw from the vast treasures and well of salvation that are in Christ, reminding them that millions of needy souls have been supplied from His infinite fullness. Dutton urges listeners to come and find rest in the everlasting strength of Jesus, casting all cares and anxieties upon Him.
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Oh, Come, Poor, Weak Thing
My Dear Brother in Christ, What! Do you fear because you have so little strength? You have forgotten where your great strength lies. Not in yourself, but in the Lord; in the Lord Jehovah, in whom there is everlasting strength; even in Him who, as the Creator of the ends of the earth, faints not, neither is weary. Jehovah-Jesus is your strength! Can you spend those vast treasures that are in Him? Can you draw the well of salvation dry with your thousands needs? Millions of needy souls, with innumerable needs, have been supplied from thence, and still the well of life is as full as ever! Christ is as full for you, my brother, as He was for the first needy soul who ever came unto Him. Oh, come, poor, weak thing, and lie down by faith in the bosom of your own Lord Jesus, in the bosom of that infinite fullness, that everlasting strength which is in Him, and take a holy ease from all anxious thought and perplexing fear because of the little strength which is in you. Oh, come, cast your care upon Christ!
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Anne Dutton (1692–1765) was an English poet and Calvinist Baptist writer on religion.[1] She published around 50 titles and corresponded with George Whitefield and John Wesley. Dutton's Narration of the Wonders of Grace (1734) was a 1500-line poem in heroic couplets, complete with marginal references to Scripture, reviewing redemption history from the point of view of Calvinist Baptists. (A modern scholar has called it "execrable verse, interesting only as testimony to the mental tilt of a particular kind of zealot".[3]) In her correspondence with Wesley she differed with him over the question of Election. A Brief Account of the Negroes Converted to Christ in America was one of 13 tracts and letters she published in 1743 alone. George Whitfield was another recipient of her work.