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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

the evil of their ways that so he may bring forth holiness and righteousness and redeem a people from under the Bondage of Sin and fit them for the Kingdom of his Father and to use the Apostles words present them before the Throne of God without spot and blameless he will purifie them and sprinkle them from an evil Conscience their bodies being washed with pure Water he will sanctifie the Creature his Word is nigh them and in their Hearts he begins a good Work in many and will carry it on in one and in another Here lies the chief Work it is the good hand of God must work all our works in us and for us according to the good pleasure of his will work in you a willingness to bear the Cross of Christ and to deny your selves he will operate for you for this purpose therefore you must commit your selves to him It is not our Preaching which will Convert Men to God but it is the word of God that is pure which Converts the Soul to God and that cleanseth and fits and prepares it for the Kingdom of Heaven Psalm 19.7 We must come to the word of God that will convince us reprove us strengthen encourage illuminate us and do in us and for us all that we stand in need of to him be all the praise that worketh all in you and prepares you to be a Peculiar People to himself To the word of his Grace I commit you all take heed of doing any thing contrary to it if you do that which would be your Comfort will be your Condemnation His Prayer after Sermon BLessed God and Father of Life thou art Glorious in Holiness Infinite in Power the Eternal God thy Dominion is an everlasting Dominion thy Kingdom is without end O Lord we bless and praise thy Glorious Name that thou hast made known thy self among the Sons and Daughters of Men thou bast revealed to us in thy word the manner of the coming of thy Kingdom among us in setting up Righteousness and Truth and throwing down iniquity Powerful God of Life subject the Minds and Hearts of all thy People to thy Divine power and pleasure and let the dread of thy self rest upon our Spirits that every one of us may fear to Sin against thee and to do despite to thy Spirit the Spirit of thy Grace that we may every one of us turn from our iniquities the evil of our hearts and ways that we may praise thee in the Land of of the Living and may become faithful witnesses of that Salvation which thou hast wrought for us and for all them that believe Powerful God of Life the Souls of thy People which thou hast gathered out of the World do praise and magnifie thy Name for what they have seen and for what thou hast wrought thou hast wonderfully appeared in thy love and brought Salvation near and gathered many into it it is become a Wall and a Bulwark to them that they are defended from the Evil One and from the evils of the world O dearest God of Life raise up poor and needy Souls out of the dust that they may serve thee and obey thee and do thy will and shew forth thy power and strength in their weakness and infirmity that they may trust in thee and rely upon thee in the time of their distress Blessed Father of life and power give grace to the humble and meek and teach them in thy way We have had experience O Lord of thy fulfilling thy promises thou art still fulfilling of them to all that truly wait upon thee thou hast begun a good work wilt thou carry it on to the praise and exaltation of thy great name Blessed Father reveal thy Power more and more in the Nations round about that they that long after the life of the living God may come and find thee and behold thy Divine appearance through the Son of thy Love in their own Spirits that so they may receive thy word and thy word may quicken them to stand up from the dead and live for it is the living the living O Lord that praise thee that honour thy Name that offer praise and glorifie thee O Blessed Father of Life carry on thy great work with power throughout all the Earth gather a remnant of thy seed that are scattered and bring them home into the Kingdom of thy dear Son that we may praise thee together and rejoyce in thy Name Dear Father thou hast saved this Nation the Land of our Nativity to this day by a wonderful power by thy powerful arm our Souls are deeply sensible of the stretching forth of thy Almighty hand in our preservation at this day so living Father if it be thy heavenly pleasure lengthen forth our Tranquility and the enjoyment of thy mercy and goodness to the Inhabitants thereof that they may learn to fear thee and turn to thee with their whole hearts and break off by true Repentance from all those sins that grieve thy Holy spirit that so living Father of life they may come to walk in Love and in Vnion with the heavenly Power and have Concord one with another and shew forth the Power of thy Grace manifested to them and magnifie thy love and power and give thee honour and renown for that great salvation that thou hast wrought for them that so thy great name may be exalted and thy will may be done on Earth as it is in Heaven that the Souls of thy People may be refreshed with thy love and the joys of thy presence and the revelation of thy Heavenly power for this Living Praises and Christian Thanksgivings we offer up to thee in and through the Lord Jesus Christ for thou art worthy of all Praise and Glory and Dominion for ever and ever Amen FINIS A Catalogue of Books Printed for Nath-Crouch at the Bell in the Poultrey near Cheapside History 1. ENglands Monarchs Or A Compendious Relation of the most remarkable Transactions from Julius Caesar to this present adorned with Poems and the Picture of every Monarch from K. Will. the Conqueror to K. Will. and Q. M. With a List of the Nobility and the number of the Lords and Commons in both Houses of Parliament Pr. one shilling 2. THE History of the House of Orange Or a Brief Relation of the Glorious Atchievements of his Majesties Renowned Predecessors and likewise of His own Heroick Actions till the late wonderful Revolution Together with the History of K. W. and Q. M. Being an impartial Account of the most Remarkable Passages from Their Majesties Happy Accession to the Throne to this time By R. B. Pr. 1 s. 3. THE History of the two late Kings Charles the II. and James the II. being an Impartial Account of the most remarkable Transactions and observable passages during their Reigns and the secret French and Popish Intrigues and Designs managed in those times Pr. one shilling 4. THE History of Oliver Cromwel being an Impartial Account of all

didst to thy People of old O Living God of Life thou hast ordained a remnant to give up themselves to be led by it thou regardest them and art with them and they enjoy from time to time thy Holy Presence which makes glad their Souls and they have Fellowship and Communion with thee and thy Son through thy Spirit by which they are quickned to offer up pure and living Praises upon thine Altar O living God of love and life thou hast shed abroad thy love upon their hearts by which they are enabled to pray for their Enemies that they may come to enjoy Salvation and the pleasures which are at thy right hand which are infinitely better than all the Pleasures of this vain World Holy and powerful Father have respect to all our Souls and touch all our Hearts with a sense of thy Divine Love that we may feel the Cords of thy Love drawing our Souls nearer to thy self and assuring us that thou hast a gracious purpose to save us O Powerful God of Life shew forth thy Power that our Hearts may be touched and quickned thereby to come to fear thee and reverence thy Name and be acquainted with thy Operation in their own Hearts that they may be humbled and broken before thee and bow down and Worship in the sincerity and uprightness of their Hearts so Holy God of Life if it be thy pleasure none may depart out of this Assembly without some sense of thy Love and feeling of the Powerful Drawings of thy Grace and without being raised up to purity of Heart and convinced of the evil of every thing that is contrary to thee and serve thee in Holiness and Righteousness and pursue it with all their Hearts and Minds and Soul and Strength that thou mayst have mercy on them and pardon their Iniquity and love them freely for so thou hast ordained in thy Son Jesus Christ that we may receive Remission of Sins through the Belief of thy Everlasting Truth and Holy Powerful God of Life that all thy People may partake of Holiness and Sobriety to the praise of thy Name and that they may all come to obtain a Victory over all those Spiritual Enemies that War against their Souls that thy Holy Work of Redemption and Regeneration may be carried on to the praise of thy Grace and the exaltation of thy Holy Name to whom Praise belongs Honour belongs and Wisdom belongs and pure and humble Thanksgivings and unto thee the Living God of Life we desire to offer our Praises and Adorations for thou alone art Worthy who art God over all blessed for ever and ever Amen Sermon II. Bearing the Cross of Christ the true mark of a Christian Preached at Devonshire-House Octob. 12. 1690. HE that knoweth 〈…〉 the Lord and the stretching forth of his Arm is quickned to feel the Power that is in Christ Jesus the Head of the Church that so he may be enabled through his Power to bring forth Fruit unto God The Eye of the Lord is upon you all and he expects at the hand of every one that they bring forth Fruit unto God that according to the aboundings of his Mercy towards you and of his patience and long suffering concerning you there might at last be an answer in the Soul of every one unto the mercy and goodness of God they that do not know and experience this that the long suffering and patience of God leadeth unto Repentance they know no part of Christianity let them make their profession never so high and proclaim their notions never so loud they that know not the Work of Repentance wrought in their hearts as yet need to Learn the first Principles of the Christian Religion You know it hath been the Custom of People to learn their Children Principles and they that have learned their Principles they go for Christians whether they repent or no though they go on in Sin and Iniquity all their days yet they go under the Reputation of Christians and it is high time to examine and find out if you can a reason for this that a Man should be accounted a Christian upon any other terms now in this age than the Lord Christ did Preach and Publish in the days of his flesh for he did absolutely deny that any Man could be his Disciple without taking up a daily Cross and without self-denial Now how should a Man at this day be a Christian or a Disciple of Christ without taking up a daily Cross and without self-denial It may be some will tell me that they are Baptized into the Christian Faith and have been taught and have made a profession of Christian Principles and associated themselves among those that make a profession of Christ but here is not a word of a daily Cross in all this nor of self-denial so that they would have you to understand in this that the terms of Christianity are changed and that Men may be Christians without the terms of Christ or at least reputed so And this hath been occasioned by the great Apostacy that hath been brought into the Church by a long night of darkness and by the revealing of Antichrist Antichrist hath been discovered and revealed and hath set up in despight of Christianity a false Christianity and there came in the terms of a Mans being accepted and reputed a Christian upon Antichrists terms and if you will conform to do thus and say so you shall be admitted into the Christian Society now all these terms of Antichrist have been such things as an unregenerate Man could conform to and comply with And the opening of this door hath let into the Church abundance of Hypocrites and Evil doers because they were able in their unregenerate state to conform to those things that were required for in the publick Society of Christians it was not said you must be regenerate and take up a daily Cross and deny your selves and walk as becometh Saints and so behave your selves that God may be glorified and the profession of Christianity honoured by you these were the terms of old but there are other terms of a later date of being Christians Now seeing this Apostacy hath prevailed and spread over whole Nations and Countries not a few so that whole Kingdoms have become Christians upon these later terms and God is greatly dishonoured among us and Christ the Holy one most horribly prophaned among us It is not so common among Heathens and Infidels to find People wronging and deceiving one another and killing and destroying one another and yet it is the practice of many that are called Christians these are the fruits and effects of those later times of Christianity Now seeing it is thus which no mortal man can deny I have this Question to ask and I desire that you would seriously weigh it in your Hearts and Souls both while you are together and when you are separate one from another whether it is not high time for all of us to return again to