Anne Dutton's
Letters on Spiritual Subjects
Dear Brother,
God is the God of His people collectively, and yet He is
the God of every one of them individually, as entirely as if there was never
another that shared the same privilege, when yet there is an innumerable
multitude as equally and entirely interested in His great Being! And as
every saint, even to the least, has a God, and all in God for his own, so in
every mercy cast upon him, to the very least, he has God's great Self. He
says to every one of His children, I am your God; and in every favor He
bestows upon us we have Himself as such. Oh, I see with pleasure, I feel to
soul-satisfaction, that the least favors are exceedingly great and weighty
as our great God is in them. In every crumb of blessing, if we saw
the God of mercy, and all the fullness of God therein, oh, how full, rich,
and glorious would every mercy appear to be; and how abundantly thankful
would we be for the very least!