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A34998	The second volume of the sermons or declarations of Mr. Stephen Crisp, late of Colchester in Essex, deceased. Exactly taken in characters or short-hand, as they were delivered by him at the publick meeting-houses of the people called Quakers· In Grace-Church-street, and Devon-shire-House, London. And now faithfully transcribed and published. With some of his prayers after sermon.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1693 (1693)	Wing C6939; ESTC R213012	90,303	201

for which cause he is not ashamed to call them Brethren Heb. 2.11 They that are sanctified are become Saints they bring forth the Fruits of Holiness and Sanctification and they are come into Fellowship with God and one another Every Branch in me saith Christ that beareth not Fruit he taketh away but every branch that beareth Fruit he purgeth it that it may bring forth more Fruit. That branch which beareth not Fruit is cast into the Fire and burned There are some that bring forth Fruit but it is Fruit to the Flesh and the Wicked one but I hope you are not of that number These separate themselves from the Life of the true Vine these have no Fellowship nor true Membership with the Church of Christ while they walk as Captives to the Devil and Sin these are of the World and not of the Church If you would have Fellowship with the Church do not think to have it by outward Conformity Do not think that this will maintain your Fellowship with Christ without a Life of inward Holiness and Righteousness for that day you break with the Truth in your selves you break off your Fellowship with the Church of God and break your peace with God and can no way be restored again to the favour of God but by an unfeigned Repentance For the Mystery of Faith is to be held in a pure Conscience how is my Conscience defiled if I wrong not this or the other Man or Woman some can hold the Mystery of Faith so far as it consists in a Profession they can profess it and they can Preach it but they have not held the Mystery of Faith in Christ so as to receive Life and Vertue and Comfort from him You have got the History of Words and Doctrines but as soon as you defile your Consciences by doing evil things and depart from a Principle of Grace as soon as you defile your Consciences you make Shipwrack of Faith But my Friends as you have a mind to continue and abide in the Faith and in this Travel and Heavenly Journey I would give you this as a certainty it may do you good when my head lies low The way to continue in the Church of God and Communion of Saints and to retain your Peace with God is to keep a Familiar Converse with the Truth in your own Souls and it will keep you from falling and lead and guide you in your Way in your Travel and Journey to Heaven As the Mother when her Child cries after her but cannot go she takes it by the hand and leads it so if you keep close to the Truth it can lead you through all Difficulties through great Business as well as little and deliver you from Snares and Temptations and when you are assaulted it can bring you off clear As for Communion with God and Communion with the Saints and People of God it stands in that Peace and Purity and keeping a Holy frame of mind in your Heavenly Travel in the undefiled Way that will at last bring you to the Undefiled Everlasting Rest that remains to the People of God Sermon VII The Dawning of the Day of Grace and Salvation Preached in Grace-Church-Street August 2. 1691. My Friends YOU cannot but know and be sensible that a Gospel Day a Day of Grace and Salvation hath Dawned upon you and that the Light of it hath broken through many Clouds of Darkness which sometime you could not see through This is an inestimable and unspeakable mercy of God unto us that the Light of the Gospel of Salvation shineth upon a People that without it must be miserable There hath been a very Dark and Cloudy Day upon our Fore-fathers and also upon us in the days of our Ignorance We are apt to wander hither and thither and to be turned aside with the wind of Mens Doctrine that we could not find a rest a home or a settlement for our Souls in order to Life Eternal And there be many have cryed unto God that he would please to reveal hi● Way and to make it known unto them and they have been apt to Covenant with the Lord that if once they could come to a certainty they would walk in it Unto such as these the Lord hath bowed his Ear and hath answered them and in his answering the cry of the Soul he hath brought Salvation near and hath revealed the Power by which he would bring it to pass in every particular Soul that receiveth the Gospel of his Son But now Friends you that are sensible of this Blessed Glorious Visitation of this Gospel Day in which Salvation is brought near It is needful for every one to examine their own Hearts whether they have really received the Gospel whether they have received and embraced the great bounty and unspeakable blessing of the Gospel with which the Lord God of Life hath visited us or whether they have rejected it For though it is our happiness to know the Visitation of Life yet it doth not follow that every one that is Visited will be made an Heir of it for There are many that fall short through their unbelief For there are many that have received the Gospel who do disobey the Gospel of Christ and so have not Eternal Life by it When People come to this serious Examination of themselves herein then the Light and Grace that comes from Christ unto every one of us both to him that rejects it as well as to him that receiveth it that will make known to them their State and Condition with respect to the Gospel of Christ For there be a great many that by an Alienation of their minds from the Light of Christ Jesus are apt to be mistaken in their State and to make a better judgment of themselves and of their state inwardly than really it will amount to in the day that the Lord searcheth and tryeth them But they that make a judgment of themselves by the openings and discoveries that they have through the Light of Christ Jesus for so we are to do in this weighty matter they make a judgment of ther state and condition according to the Evidence that the Spirit of God bears to their Spirits and this I hope you will all say is a most certain Way For if we go to compare our selves one with another and say I am better than thee and that man is better than I here we are liable and subject to a great many Errours where there ought to be none But if we come to measure and determine our present state and condition by the Evidence of the Spirit of God bearing witness with our Spirits here we have a foundation to place an infallible and certain judgment upon And they that are obedient to the Gospel of Christ are capable of giving a sound judgment of their state because they are made partakers through Christ of that Grace and Light and Truth which they should be obedient to and they are brought into

is given for another reason and there is truth in it but that truth is but a delusion they would excuse themselves when they have yielded to a Temptation I am weak and frail I cannot resist the Devil tho the Devil is not stronger than Christ yet he is stronger than I he worketh with all his might power and subtilty to deceive me and ensnare me and overcome me I am a poor frail Creature therefore I must yield to him This is a carnal reason if I were to grapple with the Devil in mine own strength and to deliver my Soul as if God had left me to my self If thou say Lord thou hast set me to grapple with the Devil and to withstand his temptations Lord I am not able to do it my self God will answer thee I have laid help upon one that is mighty that is able to save to the uttermost all that come to me by him So that thou are not to overcome the Devil by thine own power and ability If any man reason thus the reason is out of Doors for we are saved by Christ therefore I cannot plead mine own frailty seeing God hath provided a Rock for my defence that is stronger and higher than I that I may trust and relye upon So that you see the frailties of our nature is not a sufficient reason we must seek further for it yet and when we come to search narrowly and to the bottom of our Hearts I will tell you here it rests it hath its center in the perverseness of the Will that is in man that is contrary to the Will of God It is the opposition of our Will to the Will of God we may talk what we will of Salvation and Christianity that we have a mind to be saved and go unto God when we die and to enjoy the happiness of Heaven to Eternity We may talk thus but as long as the perverseness of the Will continues I am the cause of mine own ruine if I grow in a profession this perverse Will will grow up with me under that profession and under any profession change your judgment and opinion as often as you List this will go along with you the reason and the bottom of things will come to this none can overcome the Devil nor be a Disciple of Christ without a daily cross When people come to this to see a necessity of taking up the cross of Christ and denying themselves When it comes to this there are such shifts and evasions and arts that men have to cover themselves to make themselves and others believe that such and such a thing is consistent with the Will of God and that they may do it and save their own Souls but they boast of their own deceit and are glad that they can make a shift to save their own Souls so that there is no hopes of their ever being purged and cleansed and of having any holy work brought forth by them but when a man comes to be sensible of his spititual condition and is sincere and honest he will be ready to say unto God if I be deceived in any thing open mine Eyes Lord if I indulge my self in any thirg that hath a contrariety to thy holy Will Lord I beseech thee discover it to me such a man will lay aside his own Will if it be contrary to Gods Will Now here is one that is a very fit Object for Christ to work upon he will not be long before he be savingly convinced When a man comes to the Word he is convinced of such an evil in his Conscience where no body but God and himself were privy to it or had any knowledge of it It is discovered that he liveth in such a practice as is contrary to the mind of God God hath convinced thee that thou lovest it and livest in it And if thou wilt but break off that evil practice that hath sent his Son Jesus Christ to turn thee from every evil way and to Redeem thee from all Iniquity This truth hath a savour in it and if thou art sincere and upright there is nothing for thee to say or do but to set thy self against every thing that is contrary to the mind of God and thou wilt have light from Heaven sent to guide thee and direct thee in thy way thither if thou wilt but receive that Grace that is freely given of God unto thee through Jesus Christ he will certainly purge thee and cleanse thee from thy Sin and turn thee from every evil way notwithstanding the perverseness of thine own Will and Power of Satan And he will work in thy Heart by his Grace till it hath wrought thee off from thine iniquity and wrought iniquity out of thee and so bring forth a holy work to God Without Faith it is impossible to please God We cannot please God without Faith nor with it neither unless it be the gift of God There is a great deal of Faith in this Nation and in this City But do you believe all their ways are pleasing to God We must distinguish of Faith here When the Apostle would give a description of saving Faith he tells you that it is the Operation of God if I have not that Operation and a regard to it how can I have that working But since it is the dispensation of the Gospel of Christ and design of Christ to turn people to the operation of God in their own hearts we would have them believe it If there be a drunkard or a prophane person if God work faith in his Heart he will be convinced and say what a stroak hath the Lord given upon my Conscience and he will see it is the Lords work Then believe whoever thou art and lay hold of this for this is the Operation of God for thy Salvation this is the Operation of God upon a believing Soul the stroak of Gods hand and the Power of God and then thou hast the work of Faith by which Faith thou art enabled to keep thy self from that thing that God smote thee for and before he give thee over the same hour thou wilt find the same hand smiting thee for another sin this will be like fire in thy bones kindling up thy zeal and hatred against thy sin and will kindle in thee a holy fire of Love to God that hath not let thee lie in thy misery but minded thy condition and had compassion on thee This love God will shed abroad which will run over thy Heart He hath shed abroad his Love saith the Apostle Rom. 5. upon our hearts by the Holy Ghost to constrain us to yield obedience when thou fallest into the way of Faith which is the Operation of God the Devil comes and knocks and bounceth on this side and that and will tempt thee to walk in thy old course but God will not fail to give thee the power to withstand temptation The Lord Jesus Christ he worketh in peoples Hearts to turn them from

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