Sermons & Devotionals by Anne Dutton

Anne Dutton's Letters on Spiritual Subjects Dear Sir, As pride is a sin that abides and works in all Christians in this world, let us all then, as the servants of Christ, trusting in Him—our victorious, sin-pardoning, sin-subduing and grace-giving Master—watch and oppose the enemy whenever attacked ... Read More

His sovereign love! Dear Sir, I rejoice that the Lord has often refreshed your soul with that great word (Jer. 31:3), " Yes! I have loved you with an everlasting love! therefore with loving-kindness have I drawn you." These words were spoken by the Lord to His Church and people of old, are spoken by... Read More

We live in a world of changes! Dear Sir, We live in a world of changes! The dispensations of God toward us alter—the manifestations of His love vary—the kindness of friends ebbs and flows—and our love to God and to each other varies like the changing light. But this, oh this, is our unspeakable priv... Read More

No step of your thorny path Dear Sir, I rejoice to see your faith in the unchangeable love of our three-one God, and your humility under its bright display. But why, my dear Sir, should you say, "I am discouraged because of the difficulty of the way?" You know the Lord led Israel of old "by a right ... Read More

The furnace of affliction My Dear Sister in Christ, As it is the pleasure of your heavenly Father still to continue you in the furnace of affliction , do not think the time long; this momentary affliction is to prepare you for glory of an endless duration. Therefore, "let patience have its perfect w... Read More

A sweet soft bosom to rest our weary heads Dear Sir, It gave me pleasure to hear from you, but I am sensibly touched with grief for your ill state of health. May the Lord support you under the trial, increase your graces in the furnace, and bring you thence with advantage. It is our unspeakable priv... Read More

Your Father's love-tokens! Dear Madam, Though the Lord has tried you for many months of afflictions , think it not strange, since you are put among God's children, that you have had and must have your own part of afflictions—they are, they shall be, your Father's love-tokens! Satan and unbelief ofte... Read More

A love-stroke Dear Madam, You thought right that I should pity you, when I knew the cause of the lameness of your hands. For who that loves can forbear the greatest pity to a worthy friend who was used most cruelly? Cruel treatment was this from the creature—but a love-stroke of God your Father! You... Read More

Weeping may endure for a night Dear Madam, It is with much pleasure that I read your last, and I was engage to give thanks and praise to the God of all grace for His making my poor letters of any use to your dear soul. Yes, Madam, your benighted soul shall be favored with the light of God's countena... Read More

Live, and bathe, and dive, to a blessed eternity! Sir, My work on earth is almost done, glory be to God! A nobler work in heaven will soon come on. Now I would serve the Lord—but then I shall serve Him perfectly, incessantly, and eternally; serve Him without sin, interruption, weakness, and wearines... Read More

That eternal feast! Dear Madam, Your most acceptable favor with your most kind present I received, and return my most humble and utmost thanks. My soul prays most heartily for your rich reward in and from the God of grace and glory, in time and to eternity. But who, or what am I , that the God of my... Read More

Anne Dutton's Letters on Spiritual Subjects Dear Madam, It is indeed a very great privilege to be favored with a religious parentage and education, but if this were our greatest felicity, we would sink, nevertheless, into eternal misery! But the vessels of mercy– of God's free, rich, sovereign mercy... Read More

Anne Dutton's Letters on Spiritual Subjects My Beloved Brother in the Lord, I am a partaker of your joy in those rich love-feasts in our Lord's banqueting-house with which you have been favored. O happy soul, how does Jesus love you! And yet I must tell you He has but begun to love you. The love of ... Read More

Anne Dutton's Letters on Spiritual Subjects My Dear Brother, The present state is a state of trial to all God's people. Troubles of various kinds, from within and without, like rolling waves, come thick, one as it were upon the neck of another. But yet, though in the world we have, we shall have tro... Read More

Anne Dutton's Letters on Spiritual Subjects Dear Sister, Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. It is the pleasure of our dear Father to exercise you in a very particular manner, and to continue it long upon you. But be not cast down thereat, as if... Read More

Anne Dutton's Letters on Spiritual Subjects Dear Sister, Grace unto you, and peace be multiplied, from God our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, by the blessed Comforter. I understand that you are exercised both with affliction of body and darkness of soul, and I sympathize with you herein. But thi... Read More

Anne Dutton's Letters on Spiritual Subjects My very Dear Sister in the Lord, We are almost home! A few more trials, and then farewell, trials, forever! The bosom of Christ, the glory of the heavenly state is ready for us. In a little while, we shall be fully made fit to be partakers of the inheritan... Read More

Anne Dutton's Letters on Spiritual Subjects My Dear Sister in the Lord, All our times of refreshing, my dear sister, come from the presence of the Lord. If God is present with our souls, by the special gracious influence of His Holy Spirit, we are refreshed; if God is absent, as to His sensible infl... Read More

Anne Dutton's Letters on Spiritual Subjects For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," made His light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ. 2 Cor. 4:6 There is a vast difference between a conviction of the doctrines of grace i... Read More

Anne Dutton's Letters on Spiritual Subjects Dear Brother and Sister, As to my health, blessed be God, I am no worse. I dwell in a fragile body, which I think sometimes is near its dissolution. But I rejoice in that house, that building of God, eternal in the heavens, which I know, through grace, is ... Read More