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A34996 A plain path-way opened to the simple-hearted for the answering all doubts and objections which do arise in them against the light and truth in the inward-parts, by which many are kept from obedience and so from peace to their panting souls / by Stephen Crisp. Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692. 1668 (1668) Wing C6937; ESTC R37690 13,520 17

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the dead and have their expectation unto God in that matter that he will according to his Promise raise them up at the last day and will give unto every Seed his own Body even as pleaseth him and the Creature is not carefull then about such foolish questions and doubts as to enquire what manner of body God will give them but leaves it to the Lord in full faith that he will raise them up according to the Scriptures and so here all thy doubts will flee away and are answered with that that was before them as it comes to rule in the Creature and Death that is the root and ground of them comes to be swallowed up in the Victory of the Life And so as thou seels thy part in this Resurrection all the doubts and fe●rs of thy own condition will he answered effectually which cannot otherwise be answered but by that good Spirit of God that strives with thee which when it doth prevail with thee and thou becomes subject to it then it witnesseth for thee for that there is a state in which there is a danger of falling away thy daily experience teacheth thee to thy sorrow and besides Christ said Every Branch in me that beareth not fruit must be cut off and the many examples in Scripture of them that departed from the Faith and made shipwrack of it and turned with the Dog to the vomit and the Sow to the mire doth sufficiently prove it and if thou dost stand it is by Faith and thou must take heed and so mayst thou come to the Crown and Seal and Assurance and an Establishment in the Kingdom where thou shalt no more go forth but shall have thy Souls desire answered And when thou comest to know this state and to receive this White Stone that hath the Name within thou wilt then be without doubt or fear given up in the will of God to do and to suffer all things according to his blessed will and here is the true and perfect Rest to thy Soul whoever thou art that art now labouring in the Iron Furnace of thy own thoughts and doubts in the which the more thou givest thy self up thereto the darker thou art and the fuller of doubts for they will beget and multiply one another and the more thou reasons against obeying Gods Witness in thy heart the less able thou art to obey it but the little strength which God gives thee thou confults it away and then when thou wouldst be strong thou becom'st feeble and when thou wouldst in some measure obey thy own consultations stands in the way and hinders thee and the more thou increasest in knowledge in this state the more thou increasest thy sorrow and condemnation so that sometimes thou art ready to wish thou had never known so much of Truth and sometimes wishes thou knew more concerning such a Point or such a Doctrine or such a Scripture or such a Mystery and art apt to think because thou art yet ignorant in some things relating to Truth therefore thou art the more excusable if thou be disobedient but all poor soul consider the way to know more is to be obedient to a little v●●ch thou hast received and then that mist and fog of thy own u●f●thfulness will vanish away from before the eye of thy mind for it is that which hinders good things from thee and mak'st thee go daily with a burthen upon thy shoulders and a guilt upon thy Conscience and thou canst not in no case of thy necessities come before the Lord with an open face but art covered still with thine own iniquities and in this state thou knowest neither Sabbath nor new Moon nor Holy-day to the Lord but all labour toyl and travel and wearisomness of spirit till many even comes to wish an end of their dayes and yet are in great fear that the end will be worse too Oh how my Soul pitties you whose state this is and I have a great sympathy with your sorrows and in bowels of tender love am I drawn forth to reach out a hand to help you as one that hath obtained mercy to know deliverances and to witness the way of it and have the testimony of God in my heart to witness forth the coming of the Saviour to the poor and needy Souls to the relieving of them and comforting of them and my Souls desire is that your bonds might be broken and your Souls might escape but this I say in the Name of the Lord to you all there is no way for your deliverance but your giving up in single obedience to that faithfull and true Witness of God which stirs and moves in thee against thy sins and therefore wait thou to feel thy mind and will subjected thereunto that thou mayst feel thy self to be one of those willing people in this the day of Gods Power and cease from thy reasonnings against thy obeying the Truth and from saying thou cannot thou wants power and when God gives thee Grace then thou wilt obey for these sayings are in vain for though it is true none can obey the Lord but by his Grace and Power given unto them yet he hath made his Grace even that which bringeth Salvation to appear unto all men as in Titus 2.11 and it hath appeared unto thee and in thee to whom I write and is a Reprover in thee and thou must turn to that that smites thee and then thou turns to the Grace of God for it s his Grace that strives with thee to lead thee out of the evil that it reproves in thee and so out of the World that lies in the evil up to God from whence the Grace cometh for whosoever doth give up to the drawings of the good Spirit of God that moves in them and in obedience thereto do deny themselves of their own wills and lusts and evil desires and pleasures such wants not power but feels him near them that works the willingness first and then the deed according to his pleasure and so the glory comes alone to be his and then thou knowest the Mystery of the Cross and how it is the Power of God which all that rejects the Cross complains for want of And so so long as thou livest in the Cross thou livest in the Power and thy obeying is easie and all things are possible to thee thorow it and as long as thou art daily dying to that which is corruptible thou feelest the more Life and Joy and pleasure in that which is Everlasting and thy desires grow more and more fervent after a full and perfect injoyment of it in the pure unity of Spirit And those desires growing strong in thee it grows a lighter thing to thee to part with that which hinders though it be thy bosom sins thy Delilahs and Darlings yet all must go for the love thou hast to Truth and such only as have this love and continue in it are counted worthy to be Heirs of the Kingdom of God for so long as any thing be hugged and loved besides the Lord if the Lord should manifest his Love to thee thou would play the Harlot and abuse his Mercies and cleave to thy old Lovers as Israel of old did that was after the Flesh and therefore think it not strange to be brought thorow manifold tryals that thereby thou mayst be purged and prepared as a Bride for the true Husband Christ Jesus for there is many that desires acquaintance with him but are not fitted for him they must be washed first and trimmed first and must put off the vile Raiment first and must come to know the white Linnen put on and while this work is doing what need of patience and quietness of Spirit is there what need of subjection to the workings of that holy Spirit in all things that thou may not be setting limits and bounds to that which must bound and limit thee in all things nor say in thine heart if my trials were but so or my exercises so or so I could then bear them but rather submit in all things willingly to do and suffer and to be tried and exercised even as it please the Lord to order or suffer thee to be tried and in all his dealings say with the good man It is the Lord let him do what he will with thee and whosoever gives up thus to him though he slay them yet shall they live though he wound them yet he will heal them again Therefore learn patience and stilness of mind for by taking thought thou can add no thin● 〈◊〉 ●his work I Remember Israel of old who were commanded to stand 〈◊〉 to see the Salvation of God in their greatest straits and they were a figure unto thee and now in the Light read thy figure and wait for the Substance the true Seed that it may bring forth peace and rest to thy Immortal Soul and may set up righteousness in thy Earth which is that I travel after on the behalf of all distressed and afflicted Souls every where to whom I am a Friend and well-wisher as one knowing their trials straits doubts and besettings and also thorow the rich love of God in Christ Jesus do witness the delivering answering and satisfying-Life made m●nifest and revealed in its own Eternal Light which lighteth every man and in true desire that you may all know the same and in discharge of my duty towards God and my Generation have I sent forth this word of Counsel and Exhortation and do remain in my Rest with the Lord being thus far clear of the Blood of all men whether they hear or forbear and though in Bonds for the Gospels sake yet the Lords Free-man waiting in patience and full assurance for Zion's full Redemption ●pswich County-Goal this 3d Moneth 1668. Known by the name Stephen Crisp THE END
an hundred fold in this time and in the World to come Life Everlasting Forsaking and Self-denial hath alwayes been the way to Life and to true Blessedness and is the way unto this day And therefore all you who have wandered in your own ways and have not yet learned to deny your selves of what is contrary to the Witness of God in your Consciences but have desires and that strong ones too to keep and hold that still which the Light in you doth reprove and yet have desires of Life and Peace too and so are in many doubts and straits about these things to you all this is the Counsel of the Lord and the cry of his pure Spirit Come out of the Babylonish confusion of your own thoughts and touch not that which is unclean and the Lord will receive you and what God by his pure Spirit hath called unclean let no man presume to call clean and to joyn to it lest they be found fighting against God and nourishing and keeping that alive which God hath appointed to die and be destroyed ye cannot serve two Masters nor pertake of the Table of the Lord and the Table of Devils Oh feed not that birth that hungers after evil things and delights in them but what is for famine let it be famished and what is for the Sword let the two edged Sword that goeth out of the mouth of the faithfull and true Witness cut it down Rev. 1.16 and 3.14 and so thou may see the Giants in the Land slain before thee by one that is mighty to deliver and to bring thee out of this Spiritual Egypt with a high hand but this thou cannot come to witness but by diligent following him and if thou willingly yeelds to his gentle drawings when thou feelst them in thy heart thou wilt find them to he effectual and profitable to thy Soul and the more thou follows him the more thou wilt feel his goodness break in upon thee for thy encouragement and the less thou wilt doubt of his love and mercy in leading thee still farther even unto the end and unto that Rest which will satisfie thy Soul Therefore lay aside all Consultations that are against thy Obedience to the Gift of God in thy heart which reproves Sin in thee and give not way to vain and needless doubts about it but as thou findst that thou hast been condemned and judged in thy disobeying of it now try and prove whether by taking up thy daily cross and obeying of it in thy words and actions and in all things if thou dost not find the answer of sweet peace and joy and when thou shalt find it so then will there be no more room for doubts and questioning against thy obeying of it but as any questions or doubts doth arise in thee or shall be cast in thy way by any without thee thou wilt feel the answer of it in thy self to thy refreshing and so thou wilt come to witness the effectual opperation of it daily in thy Soul to work thy change and translation out of thy self into it self and so thou wilt come not only to know the Light in thee for that one may do and perish For this is the Condemnation that Light is come and not loved but thou wilt know that thou art in the Light and walkest there with God and in the holy Fellowship where thou feelst the Lord near thee in his Light and his Reward is with him and so coming to walk and dwell in the Light thy conversation is now in Heaven as the Saints of old was and thy unity is witnessed with the Father and the Son as theirs was who said If we walk in the Light as he is in the Light they had fellowship with him and if any said they had fellowship and walked in Darkness which all Sinners do for Sin is the work of it such they said were Lyars And such as walks in the Light as he is in the Light such comes to know the Blood that cleanseth and washeth from the Sin and from all unrighteousness and such as feels this work wrought in them are brought into such a knowledge of the blood of Christ that they need not doubt about it nor have no occasion to raise a question where it is or what it is nor what the efficacy of it is for having the work and witness of the Blood in them this forthwith resolves all doubts that would arise and so likewise those that comes to know the Light in all things to be their Guide to lead out of Darkness and Sin and Imperfections and to bring into the Innocent and Blameless Conversation which becometh Saints and so come to know their footsteps directed before the Lord such have done doubting and questioning about Perfection for such sees that which is perfect to be come and they from the belief which they have of attaining it are labouring to conform themselves unto that rule and endeavouring after it not as the carnal Professors who say they labour after a Conquest over their Sins with a belief they shall never attain it while they live but they so run that they may attain and have the true hope in them which they that have are purifying themselves as he is pure that is their hope as John said He that hath this hope in him purifieth himself as God is pure that so Even as he was in this present World so they may be also and so here the Substance will come and will cause the shadow to flee and will answer all thy Doubts and Questions far beyond what Arguments can do And again the many doubts and disputations that have arisen about the Resurrection as thou comest to be faithfull in the daily Cross that doth slay and crucifie that nature in thee that hath resisted the Truth and held the Seed in bondage as that comes to die and to be bur●ed down in the true Baptism into Christs Death thou wi●t feel the Pure to spring up in thee and thou wi●t be made a partaker of the new Life and the true Resurrection which is Christ and all that are in him are in the Resurrection and in the Life for he said I am the Resurrection and the Life he that believeth on me th●ugh he were dead yet shall he live and this living to God in the Spirit of this ●●n is the first Resurrection which whomsoever comes to witness the second death hath no power over them but they come to know the thing as it is in Jesus and their doubts are all answered about that also for he that knows a death and Resurrect on af●er this manner To be dead to Sin and to be risen with Christ Jesus in the new Life even while they are in this earthly Tabernancle before it is d●ssolv●d such will never question their appearing at the Judgment Seat of God after it is dissolved but do believe it with joy and gladness and hath a fervent hope concerning the Resurrection of