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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80816	An epistle to Friends concerning the present and succeeding times being a faithful exhortation and warning to all Friends who profess the truth to beware of the manifold wiles of the enemy and to stand armed in the light of the Lord God of heaven and earth against his assaults, that so they may be ready to answer the call and requirings of the Lord : also, some thing signified of the mistery of the succeeding times, that all may be prepared and that the evil day may not overtake any at unawares, but such as turn away their ear from counsel / by Stephen Crisp.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1666 (1666)	Wing C6931; ESTC R202128	14,440	19

AN Epistle to Friends Concerning the PRESENT and SUCCEEDING TIMES BEING A faithful Exhortation and Warning to all Friends who profess the Truth to be ware of the manifold Wiles of the Enemy and to stand Armed in the Light of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth against his Assaults that so they may be ready to answer the Call and Requirings of the Lord. ALSO Some thing signified of the Misery of the Succeeding Times that all may be prepared and that the Evil Day may not overtake any at unawares but such as turn away their Ear from Counsel Let him that hath an Ear hear what the Spirit saith to the Churches By one who is a Traveller in the Way of Peace and hath good will towards all Men and more especially to the Houshold of Faith STEPHEN CRISP London Printed in the Year 1666. AN Epistle to Friends Concerning the PRESENT and SUCCEEDING TIMES Dear Friends YOU whom the Lord hath reached unto in this the day of his Love and hath made known the way of Truth and Righteousness unto you through the raising up of that holy living Witness of himself that long lay hid and buried in you and hath brought you to a secret feeling of something in you that is worth the minding and regarding and the Lord causing this to appear in the day of your seeking as a Light discovering Darkness and its power by which ye were formerly holden and giving you by his Spirit a sense and secret hope that in this Light the way of Deliverance was to obtained unto this hope made you not ashamed of the Light which before you hated but you came to own embrace it even while others still hated it and you for its sake yet your hearts being affected with the hope that did appear therein could not but so far joyn unto it as to make publick profession of it for its own sake and for no other ends or designes or interest at all but with resolution in that Light to wait for the Salvation of God Dear Friends it is you afore-mentioned that both now and for some days and weeks my heart hath been deeply exercised concerning even night and day and the aboundings of the Fathers love doth often overcome me and draws me forth now to say and write these things unto you for your admonition establishment and indeed it is you who did thus rightly own the way of Truth and knew your believing to be the gift and mercy of God to your souls that I do aim at for those that have taken up the profession of the precious Truth upon by respects and sinister ends and but for reasons propounded in their carnal minds though I do pitty them yet I have not much at this time to say to them but this The day shall declare them and their garment shall not hide them But you oh my friends who had fellowship with us in the deep travels of our beginnings and did come to Truth the same way and have known the power and virtue of it many times overcoming you in your inward man which hath made you cry out Lord evermore give us of this Bread and hath made you as a watred Garden Oh Friends how shall I express or signify unto you those longings those ardent desires and earnest breathings of my soul that you even you might abide to the end of all tryals and tribulation and adversities and might inherit that Crown of Immortality that is in Christ Jesus our Lord and might not by any meanes be bereft thereof this is singly my travel in Body and Spirit that you might be kept and preserved out of all the subtile snares of the wicked one which hunts for the soul even of those that have believed and therefore in dear and tender love I have a few things to write unto you for the clearing of my Conscience and discharging my duty in the sight of the Lord and the Lord give you all a tender and an understanding heart that both you and I may yet have cause daily to praise the Lord in the glorious Light of his Salvation which he hath manifested amongst us by the revealing his Son Christ Jesus to whom belongs Dominion Honour and Glory for ever Amen And first dear Friends it is in my heart to put you in remenbrance of that by which we were called and convinced which as a foundation Principle was laid in and among you and it being unchangable and unalterable in it self doth therefore admit of no alteration or change in those that are rightly kept to it It was a Light which arose in our hearts and shined forth from God the Father of Lights carrying in its appearance the nature and property of God both in its condemning evil which the Enemy had sown or planted in us and owning allowing and justifying every thing that was good and honest just and equal even those thoughts in our hearts which were of turning towards the Lord and seeking his righteousness these thoughts were justified and encouraged by the Light and all the contrary discovered and judged as they were brought to it to be tried Now this Light did our souls rejoyce in as they had good cause though it took away our former rejoycings our pleasures in vanities and iniquity died our glory in this world withered our friendship with the Sons of men decayed and we stood in the Light and saw all these things and were not sorry at it but waited daily to see these things more and more brought to pass neither was there a permitting our thoughts to go out how we might prevent those damages or repair these losses but the Cross of Christ was indeed our glorying or rejoycing and the hope that was before us did make us despise the pleasure treasures and honours friendship and delights of this world and in those dayes you grew into a feeling of the heavenly joy where the hundred-fold was witnessed in your bosoms and the zeal of the Lord was kindled by his own Spirit in you against whatsoever this Light of Jesus in the Conscience did witness against and the Lord beheld your integrity and blessed you and multiplied you and added to your strength and stature and then did the fruits of this glorious work abound among you in three more general and special effects by which effects or by their continuance among you let all now come to search and try themselves that so dear Friends those that have continued faithful in them all may persevere in like manner to the end and those who upon true search do find that they have failed and fallen short in all or any of them may make hast to repent and to turn to that which was the root of them all that they may not be found as fruitless and withered branches in the day that cometh lest they be cut off and utterly consumed and blotted out from among the living branches of the Vine for a day cometh that Truth will look into the

Love and to good Works that ye might abound in the grace committed to you and none of you who have known the Truth might be entangled with the Wiles of your subtile enemy and that you that have begun well might not lose the things that ye have wrought but might persevere in well-doing till ye have finished your course in peace And Friends this is the joy and delight of those that labour among you in the Lord and hereby is our hand strengthened and our hearts refreshed when we do find ye such as we desire ye should be even stedfast in the Truth and then also do you find us to you-ward such as ye desire we should be even a refreshing in the fellowship of life unto you and our God comforts us together in the mutual joy and comfort of his holy Spirit working in us and you And Friends I am the more drawn forth at this time to visit you with an Epistle because the Lord hath given me some sight of his great and dreadful Day and Workings in it which is at hand and greatly hastens of which I have something to say unto you that ye may be prepared to stand in his day and may behold his wonderous Working among his Enemies and have fellowship with his Power therein and may not be dismayed nor driven away in the tempest which will be great And as concerning those succeeding times the Spirit of the Lord hath signified that they will be times of horror and amazement to all that have and yet do reject his Counsel for as the dayes of his forbearance warning and inviting hath been long so shall his appearance amongst those that have withstood him be fierce and terrible even so terrible as who shall abide his coming for the Lord will work both secretly and openly and his Arm shall be manifest to his Children in both Secretly he shall raise up a continual fretting anguish amongst his Enemies one against another so that being vexed and tormented inwardly they shall seek to make each other miserable and delight therein for a little season and then the Prevailer must be prevailed over and the digger of the Pit must fall therein and the confidence that men have had one in another shall fail and they will beguile and betray one another both by counsel and strength and as they have banded themselves to break you whom God hath gathered so shall they band themselves against one another to break to spoil and destroy one another and thorow the multitude of their treacheries all credit or belief upon the account of their solemn engagement shall fail so that few men shall count themselves or what is theirs safe in the hand of his Friend who hath not chosen his safety and friendship in the pure Light of the unchangable Truth of God and all the secret counsels of the ungodly shall be brought to nought sometimes by the means of some of themselves and sometimes by impossibilities lying in their way which shall make their hearts fail of ever accomplishing what they have determined and in this state shall men fret themselves for a season and shall not be able to see the hand that turns against them but shall turn to fight against one thing and another a third thing and shall stagger and reele in Counsel and Judgment as drunken men that know not where to find the way to rest and when they do yet stir themselves up against the holy People and against the holy Covenant of Light and them that walk in it they shall but the more be confounded for they shall be helped with a little help which all the ungodly shall not hinder them of to wit the secret Arm of the Lord maintaining their Cause and raising up a Witness in the very hearts of their Adversaries to plead their Innocency and this shall make them yet the more to vex themselves Isa 8. and to go thorow hard-bestead for when they shall look upward to their Religion to their Power Policy or Preferments or Friendships or whatsoever else they had trusted in and relied upon they shall have cause to curse it and when they look downwards to the Effects produced by all those things behold then trouble and horrour and vexation takes hold on them and drives them to darkness and having no help but what is Earthly and being out of the knowledge of the mighty overturning Power of the Lord God Almighty they shall dispair and wear out their dayes with anguish and besides all this the terrible hand of the Lord is and shall be openly manifest against this ungodly Generation by bringing grievous and terrible Judgments and Plagues upon them tumbling down all things in which their Pride and Glory stood and overturning overturning even the Foundations of their strength yea the Lord will lay wast the Mountain of the ungodly Nahum 3.12 13. and the strength of the fenced City shall fail and when men shall say We will take refuge in them they shall become but a snare and there shall the Sword devoure and when they shall say We will go into the Field and put trust in the Number and Courage of our Souldiers they shall both be taken away and this evil also will come of the Lord and his hand will be stretched out still and shall bring Confusion upon Confusion Ruine upon Ruine and War upon War and the hearts of men shall be stirred in them and the Nations shall be as Waters into which a Tempest a swift Whirlwind is entred and even as Waves swell up to the dissolution one of another and breaking one of another so shal the swellings of People be And because of the hardship and sorrow of those dayes many shall seek and desire Death rather than Life Ah my heart relents and is moved within me in the sence of these things and much more than I can write or declare which the Lord will do in the Earth and will also make hast to accomplish among the Sons of Men that they may know and confess That the Most High doth Rule in the Kingdoms of Men and pulleth down and setteth up according to his own will and this shall men do before seven times pass over them and shall be content to give their glory unto him that sits in Heaven But Oh Friends while all these things are working and bringing to pass repose ye your selves in the Munition of that Rock that all these shakings shall not move even in the knowledge and feeling of the eternal power of God keeping you subjectly given up to his heavenly will and feel it daily to kill and mortifie that which remains in any of you which is of this World for the worldly part in any is the changable part and that is up and down full and empty joyful and sorrowful as things go well or ill in the World For as the Truth is but one and many are made partakers of its Spirit so the World is but one