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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34997	A plain path-vvay opened to the simple-hearted for the answering all doubts & 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.	1688 (1688)	Wing C6938; ESTC R29744	13,460	16

World to come Life Everlasting Forsaking and Self-denial hath always been the way to Life and to true Blessedness and is the way unto this day And therefore all you who have wandred 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 a live 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! seed 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 mayst see the Gyants 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 canst not come to witness but by diligent following him and if thou willingly yieldst to his gentle drawings when thou feelest them in thy heart thou wilt find them to be effectual and profitable to thy Soul and the more thou followest 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 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 questionings against thy obeying of it but as any Questions or Doubts do 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 operation 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 walk in the Light as he is in the Light such come to know the Blood that cleanseth and washeth from the Sin and from all Vnrighteousness And such as feel 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 they 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 come 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 see 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 faithful 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 buried down in the true Baptism into Christs Death thou wilt feel the Pure to spring up in thee and thou wilt 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 though he were dead yet shall he live and this living to God in the Spirit of his Son is the first Resurrection which whomsoever come 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 Resurrection after 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 Tabernacle before it is dissolved 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 have a fervent hope concerning the Resurrection of the dead and have their expectation unto God in

A plain Path-VVay opened To the Simple-Hearted For the Answering all Doubts 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 Friends and People I Have had a deep exercise upon my spirit concerning many who are come to feel something stirring and moving in their Hearts that is good to bring them into a serious consideration of their course of life and the inward state of their Immortal Souls and when you have sometimes begun to turn your minds to this good thing that stirred in you then have many Doubts and Objections arisen in you lest you should be Mis-led Deceived or Deluded and lest this thing that inwardly strives with you should lead you into the Erronious Way of the Quakers as the world's Teachers call it for they speak and write of and bear a constant Testimony to something that is in man that calls upon him to Repent and to turn to the Lord and under this very Notion that ye have heard Evil and thought evil of that People by the same Rule you are apt to think evil of that which works in your own bosom to lead you out of Sin and Iniquity and so ye are tempted to slight it and to get some slighty name for it to call it by which Antichrist's Ministers have many to afford you as to call it A Natural Light A Common Gift of the Spirit but not a Saving Gift Conviction of a Natural Conscience A Legal Work yea and many calls it The Devils work to disturb the Soul of its Peace and some A Diabolical Light c. And thus when thou art brought to slight that good Principle that strives with thee under some such Name thou gettest ease again for a little while and takest liberty to act against it and to do and say that which this Principle doth in secret condemn and then it riseth again and breaks thy peace and brings trouble and Anguish upon thy Soul and then up comes many Doubts on the one hand and Doubts on the other hand and thy poor Soul is beset and encompassed with doubts and fears and jealousies sometimes thou fearest thou withstandest the Truth to thy own Destruction and sometimes fearest again its a Delusion and thou shalt be deceived and besides thou findst many Learned men and worldly-wise men that tell thee that there is nothing good in thee and here thou art in a great strait and labourest under many sorrowful thoughts and many doubtful disputations arise in thy mind the Flesh now strongly warreth against that which comes to disturb it and the Spirit strongly warreth against that which resists rebels against it and these two are contrary and these contrary things are both in thee and thou poor Creature must feel the strugling of them both and by reason of thy darkness and doubts and fears thou scarce knows or at least with certainty which is right Now in this state and condition how acceptable would a Messenger be one of a thousand to shew unto such a one that which might deliver his Soul from going down into the pit and save his life from the Destroyer Job 33.23 And truly very many are in this straitned state in these dayes for whose sakes I am drawn into a deep exercise many times by day and by night and my cry to God is that his glorious power may more and more arise to open these doors that are shut and folded upon many such and to bring forth the imprisoned spirits out of the Prison-house and out of the Bondage of this Spiritual Aegypt where our Lord was and is crucified Spiritually and that he may expel the clouds of darkness in which the fears and doubts and qeustionings arise and that he may make a clear way in all such for his Light to break forth out of obscurity in which the answer to those Doubts and Questions do arise And by that same Spirit that labours with you am I moved to send this forth unto you all as a word of Exhortation and Counsel in the Name and fear of the Lord God by which as many as do rightly receive it and make a true use and proof of it shall find help and benefit and shall know the mouth of the Questioner stopped and the Answer of Peace witnessed to their Immortal Souls in the Lords due time And therefore consider this That every good and perfect Gift cometh from above from the Father of Lights Spirits who would not the Death of a Sinner but rather that he should turn and live and therefore hath he out of his infinite Love and tender Mercies to the Sons of Men prepared a way to draw nigh unto them even while they are in their Sins which he doth not but thorow Jesus Christ the Mediator of the New-Covenant whom he hath freely given to be a Light unto the dark World and that he should Enlighten every one that cometh into the World John 1.9 of which Number thou art one whoever thou art and art enlightned by Christ though thou be yet Darkness in thy self as the Ephesians once were yet the Light shineth in thy Darkness or else there would not be two contrary Natures and Seeds found working in thee as there is and this Light wherewith thou art enlightned is the Life of Jesus John 1.4 which he hath given a Ransom for man and that was not Natural as some foolishly imagine for if it were Natural it could not be a Ransom for man out of Sin for the Sin to be Natural and that which reproves it Natural is contrary to the Apostle who said they two that warred in the Creature were contrary and called the one Flesh or Natural and the other Spirit or Spiritual and Christ Jesus called that which should Reprove the World of Sin The Spirit of Truth and Antichrist and his Ministers call it A Natural Insufficient Light c. But know this thou that art enquiring That that in thee which doth make manifest things to thee that are reproveable that 's the Light wherewith Christ Jesus hath enlightned thee withal as the Apostle of Christ said in his Epistle to the Ephesians chap. 5. v. 13 14. and that Principle which leads thee to do or say such things as thou art secretly reproved for in thine own Conscience that is the Darkness and the Enemy of thy Souls Peace which who walks in doth not know whether he goeth for this doth minister a Peace and Pleasure to thee and a delight to thy carnal Mind for a season yet the other to wit the Light the Reprover hath power to take away peace from thee again and to judge thee and to make that which was sweet to thee to become hitter and the Darkness nor Lust nor Vanity of thy mind cannot deliver thee from this stroke Now that thou mightst be resolved in such a state what to do consider thou