Anne Dutton (1692-1765) is the subject of the 5th essay in British Particular Baptists, Volume 4, written by Huafang Xu
28th Nov 2018
By giving me frequent communion, and sweet fellowship with himself, in his three glorious persons; in the infinite, free, full, unchangeable and eternal love of the Three-One God, displayed in and through the man Christ Jesus; as that which gloriously encompassed me in one eternal round. Thus highly was I favoured for many years. —Anne Dutton, A Discourse upon Walking with God (1735).
Dutton was a prolific writer. "It was such 'a divine vocation to which she was called'. . .This calling, in terms of the difference between public and private instruction, did not violate biblical prohibitions against women’s public teaching. The picture she envisioned for her books was at once personal and theological: personal as her paying a visit to her readers for private conversations and theological as God himself conversing with them through her." --Huafang Xu