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A35001 Several sermons, or, Declarations of Mr. Stephen Crisp, late of Colchester in Essex, deceased exactly taken in characters, or shorthand, as they were delivered by him at the publick meeting-houses of the people called Quakers, in Grace-Church-Street and Devonshire-House, London / and now faithfully transcribed and published ; together with his prayer at the end of every sermon. Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692. 1693 (1693) Wing C6941; ESTC R32375 87,023 199

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the way of being near to God that so People may know whom they Worship for you have Read there have been Worshipers that do worship they know not what As our Saviour said to the Woman of Samaria You worship you know not what We know what we worship so all that are taught of God do know which is the First Lesson of Christianity as the Apostle saith He that cometh to God must first know and believe That he is That is People must first be sensible that there is a God and that he is a Rewarder of them that diligently seek him before they can rightly Worship him Now for want of this knowledge the World is scattered and People are divided into a great many sorts of Worships and Fashions and ways of Religions for want of the Knowledge of the true Worship of the True and Living God so that though Men are Universally Convinced that there is a God and that a worship is due to him from every one of us yet People are confounded scattered and divided about the performance of their great Duty And in the Day that the Lord hath visited his People he hath come to Answer this doubt and Question for them it hath been the great Question of the World and is still of many Thousands I know we should Worship God but I know not the way and manner wherein to find acceptance The Lord hath Answered that Question in abundance They that have Ears to hear let them hear what the Spirit saith there is a short Answer to it all Let People profess what Religion they will there is no acceptance with God but through Christ so that if People come to be of this and that and the other Religion and change their Religion never so often and go from one Religion to another If they come not to Christ they come not to him in whom they may find acceptance in him God is well pleased with every one but out of him he is pleased with never a one The great Mistery of Religion it lies in Christ People must come to God by Faith in him for without Faith it is impossible to please God let People perform never so much service and duties all must pass through the hands of the Mediatour before ever their performance will reach unto God or before Peace and Comfort will reach to any Mans Soul Therefore it is the wisest way for every one that would have acceptance with God to come to him in the Name of the great Mediatour People would be glad to have acceptance with God and not to have their services turned back upon them as Cains was every one that will have acceptance with God must come this way there is but one way It is not the way that Men have invented some by their Works and Merits some by their made Faiths and made Beliefs and by divers Articles and Principles holding this Principle and the other Principle but our Lord and Creatour he hath found out one way in his Infinite Wisdom and unspeakable Mercy to Mankind that was for ever lost and could never return to God by all his Sacrifices Offerings and performances he was never able to return into Unity with his Maker If God had not found out a way and the way that God hath found out is by his Beloved Son Jesus Christ God spared not He spared not What He spared not his only begotten Son Why what did he do with him He gave him for the Life of the World in him that God gave there is Life It pleased the Lord that his Son should have Life in him as the Father had Life in himself for Christ was with the Father before the World began in him was Life and the Life was the Light of Men. John 11 4. It was no Created Life that Life that is in his Son is not a Created Life but it is Eternal Life and it was given for the Life of the World and that Life is the Light of Men This is the true Light which lighteth every Man that cometh into the World so that here is the Dignity of that Life which God hath bestowed upon us we are indued with that Life which was with the Father through Jesus Christ before the World was Let us Consider the Dignity of that Light that we are lighted with The Question is whether we should obey this Light or no It is the Question of every one I am enlightned saith a Man shall I obey it or no If I obey I must take up a Cross and part with my beloved Lust and Corruption No doubt of that we must perswade People to do that before we can bring them to Heaven and happiness and Fellowship with God it must not be by that way they lost it but by the contrary way by which God will bring Men to Happiness again They lost it by Transgression and Sinning against God by this way and means Men came out of the Presence and Favour of God by what way shall they obtain it again Shall it be by committing Iniquity and breaking Gods Law No here is the way that God hath found out to bring poor Man back again to himself by the Suffering and Obedience of his Son Jesus Christ He hath given to him all Power in Heaven and Earth that all should be Subject to him here is a Dignity which Christ hath obtained It comes to the Question with us whether we are inlightned Now we know we are Enlightned God hath bestowed something upon us that Wars and Fights against Sin and Iniquity How came we by it Is it any faculty in Nature No Nature is Corrupted and Defiled because the Carnal mind is enmity against God for it is not subject to the Law of God neither indeed can be yet there is something in me that Answers the pure Law of God that which makes me to hate things that are Reproveable that is Light How came I by it It is not Natural for then it would run Parallel with that Natural Inclination that is in my Soul to lead me further and further from God These are set in opposition one against another the Fl●sh and the Spirit The Flesh Lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the Flesh Here is part of an inward War that you may be all sensible of Now these two Warriors the Flesh and the Spirit make War one against another and one of them is over come It is true there is such a Principle in me that strives against Sin and Corruption How came you by it If you believe the Scriptures I say it is the Life of the Son of God that lighteth every Man that cometh into the World Now many that have rejected and despised the Light I believe they did not think at the same time to mock and make a scorn of the Life of Jesus though it was really so but if People came to a true esteem and value of that Light that God hath planted in the Soul
the Lord how be had led them and delivered them yet when it came to this that they must hear the Voice of God they said we cannot bear it We cannot indure it We have devised for our selves an easier way for the Voice of Thunder and Dreadful noises put them into Terrour and Quaking and Trembling and great Dread came upon them but we have found an easier way say they what is that Go thou said they to Moses and hear thou what the Lord saith and come thou and tell us Thou shalt be a Mediator between us let God speak unto thee and do thou speak the same to us and we will hear thee This was the Jews that were not come beyond the Law of God written in Tables of Stone they would not come to receive it in their Hearts as the Christian must so Moses he received the Law from the Mouth of God and he was Faithful as a Servant in the House of God and he ministred forth the Law of God his Precepts Statutes and Judgments and Testimonies and he made them a Book of Laws for all of them to walk by from the highest to the lowest how they should act in Criminal matters and do justice between Man and Man and what they should do in the Worship of God and what they should do towards the Priest whose Lips should preserve knowledge for them and so he brought up a Form of Religion but his Work was according to the Precepts of God and he brought them into the Form of National Religion and Government and National Laws And so Moyses and the Priests ruled over them and the Priest he offered Sacrifice for them and made attonement for them and Moses inquired of the Lord and asked Counsel for them and taught and instructed them and what c●me of all th●s at last When this was done the Priest made attonement for Sin but he could not pluck away the guilt of one Sin there remained the Conscience of Sin after he had made his Offering and Moses taught them the Counsels of God and the Commands of God but he could not bind their Hearts to the obedience of them for he declared openly against them that they were a Rebellious and stiffnecked People notwithstanding this they had a Law without them indeed time would fail me to run through the manifold miscarriages of the Church of the Jews in respect of their Idolatry in respect of their Contempt and Rebellion both to God and his servant Moses which was to teach and to guide them I say the time would fail me to mention the manifold miscarriages that happened among this People that had a Law and Religion without them and a Teacher without them Now in the fulness of time it pleased God in sending his Son Christ Jesus to raise up a Prophet like unto Moses in respect of Faithfulness though higher in respect of Dignity for Moses was faithful in all his House as a Servant but this Man was faithful as a Son in his own House in the House that he was Heir of that House wherein he was a King both a Priest a Prophet and a Ruler in When the Lord signified by the Spirit of Prophecy the coming of the Just one he signified to the People that his Ministry it should not be as that of Aaron the People should not have their Religion without them and their Laws and Precepts without them and their Priests without them and their Worship and Church without them but that they should have it all within them I will write my Law in their Hearts I will put it into their Inward Parts then they shall be my People and I will be their God and they shall not forsake me Your Fathers brake my old Covenant but I will make a new Covenant in the Latter days a New Covenant not like that your Fathersbroke they brake the Law without them But I will Write my Law in their Hearts This Prophet that is like to Moses he shall Teach my People he shall be a Leader to them and guide them in the way they are to go and shall be a Captain for them to lead them to Salvation And it shall come to pass in the Day that I do this if there be any that will not hear him he shall be cut off from among the People That is the Judgment that comes upon the contemners of the Gospel upon them that will not hear Christ Jesus they shall be cut off from the People from what People From the People of God they shall have no part of the Priviledges that are enjoyed through Christ they shall be cut off from the Benefits that others reap by their Faith in Christ So that now we are to expect the operation and working of a Ministry that leads a People to an inward Religion a Heart Religion where the Heart is fixed intirely upon the True and Living God as the object of their Dependance and Trust and they have no other that same is a strange Word to Flesh and Blood what no other Dependance but on the Invisible God Flesh and Blood can never come to this Flesh and Blood and Sensuality can never come to this This is a Religion that hath been hid from Ages and Generations and will be hid to all Ages that ever shall be in the World where Sensuality prevails What will you have me to have my whole Dependance for the Comfort of my Life here and of the Life that is to come the other Life to have my Dependance upon an Invisible God that Invisible Power that made me and Created the World How is it possible for me to sequester my self and draw my self off from all visible Objects I must trust to this and trust to that Flesh and Blood can never attain to this with all the Wit and Reason it hath it can never separate it self from Idols they are little Children that keep themselves frrom Idols They are Children of another birth born of another seed that will keep themselves from Idols Friends Idolatry is a great deal more common I find than most are aware of Am I commanded to Love the Lord with all my Heart and Soul and Mind and Might What is left when the whole is taken away If God hath my whole Heart what have I to bestow upon the World What Love what Affection what Eagerness what Fervency can I bestow upon the World or any Object in the World when my whole Heart and Soul and Mind is gone before gone towards the Lord This is the First and Great Commandment and the Second is like unto it that is Thou shalt Love thy Neighbour as thy self Here it is that the Law and the Prophets Faith Creeds Prayer Religion and Worship all that ever was in the World all Comprehended in this Thou shalt Love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart Soul and Strength and thy Neighbour as thy self So what need is there for us to be disputing about Religion about this
Tenet and the other Tenet this Text and the other Text For my part I should only desire for you to Understand this Text and I should not doubt your going to Heaven Here is the Sum Here is all at once Here is the Quintessence of all Religion of all Types Shadows Figures Ceremonies and Priesthood and all that ever was or could be Named and Practised in the World all brought to this The Heart given up to God our Love set upon him What is this sufficient will some say This will make you a good Moral Man but what is this to the Christian Religion You may be led into Error and become an Heretick for all this How can this be that I should not be of a sound Faith but led into Error and Heresie for all this When People let in Error and Heresie and Unsoundness of Faith Where do they let it in Do they not let in the Principles of Errour and Heresie into their Hearts I believe this and that and the other Error it comes into the Heart and hath a seat in the Heart but how can we do that How can we let it into the Heart When the Heart is given up to God Cannot he keep out Error and Heresie if I give up my Heart and Soul to him Cannot I trust him with all This kind of talk of Error and Heresie hath come among Men that have had the keeping of their own Souls they have taken their own Souls into their own hands and have ordered their Religion themselves or have gotten some body to order it for them and a great many of them have met together to make Creeds and Catechisms and Confessions and Orthodox Doctrines that might certainly be professed and subscribed Afterwards some have come and found fault with them then they must have a Council to try them then these go off and are laid aside and others are given in the room of them so that these Men have set up for themselves These would not be under the Government and Prescription of God as Children under the Government of a Father but they will set up Religions themselves and say to the rest of the World if you own any thing contrary to our Principles you are an Heretick and being an Heretick you are to be rooted out and cut off Do not you read in the Scripture that whosoever hears not the Prophet that was to come into the World shall be cut off What will you not hear Christ speak in the Church Will not you hear Christ speak The Church cannot speak without a Head If you will not hear the Church you shall be cut off Then they have fallen to Hanging and Burning and Killing and Destroying People and Nations not a few And this comes from their making Faiths and Creeds and ordering Religion themselves all their Barbarous and Inhuman Cruelties Martyring and Dungeoning of People comes from their making Faiths themselves and of all things nothing is more desparately wicked and they did not know it The Heart is deceitful above all things and desparately wicked who can know it Men know not how Proud and Arrogant they themselves are and yet they would be ordering the Hearts and Minds and Consciences of others and out of this hath Sprung all Superstition and Idolatry because men would not give up their Hearts to God Thou shalt have no other Gods but me This Commandment is great in it self strict in the terms Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart and thy Neighbour as thy self Their Neighbour could not see with their Eyes therefore there must be Hanging and Burning and Destroying one another But blessed be who is now bringing forth true Christianity upon its old Basis and Foundation whereon it was placed at first for Christianity hath been justled off from its first Foundation for instead of Loving God with all their Hearts and Loving their Neighbours as themselves they Hated them Now this is the Day O Friends the weight of it is great This I say is the Day where●n God is bringing Christianity upon its old Foundation I would not have you think that I am here judging our Fore-fathers that are fallen asleep that therefore they are gone to Hell because they saw not this Day and Lived not to see the benefit of it that we enjoy I am far from it This was the thing that they believed and prayed to God for they did not see this Day outwardly but they saw it by Faith I my self when I was a Child I remember the People of God when they got three or four together they would rejoice in the Hope of what they Foresaw they gave Thanks to God for the Blessed Days that he would bring forth though they could not tell when they did say and believe that God would scatter the Foggs and Mists and bring forth an Happy Day wherein his People should have the Gift of his Spirit when they saw the Impositions and Persecutions of these times when they that did not Conform and Comply were cast into Prisons and thrown into Dungeons and Goals Well it will not always be thus say they there is a Day a coming wherein the Lord will set his People free from all the Yoaks of Oppression and from the Oppressour Indeed my Soul did rejoyce when I was hearing the Prophetical sayings of these good men and I thought I might live to see that Day Blessed be God that hath Preserved my Life to this Day and to this Hour to enjoy what they Prayed for They Prayed to God to scatter the Mists and Fogs that they might no longer Cloud and Darken Men's Minds and hinder them from enjoying God's Teaching Blessed be God that we are now in the injoyment of the Prayers of the Faithful that left the World before we were in it Now the Day is come that they Prayed for and Enquired after How strangely doth the Man Talk will some say concerning the Christian Religion The Christian Religion is all England over go to any Meeting in London except one and they will tell you they are Christians I would to God they were that is the worst I wish them all But what should we talk of the Christian Religion without the Christian Life Except we find that amongst them What signifies the Name and Profession of it And the Christian Doctrine is wanting in many places too There be many in this City urging this very Command of Loving God with all their Hearts and their Neighbours as themselves as fervently as I can do or any body else and yet they will tell you in the next breath that no man in London nor in all the World can do this No Man can possibly Love God with all his Heart Never a Man can be found that can perform such an Act as to Love his Neighbour as himself Not every Neighbour it may be but some one choice Associate he can pick out that he can Love and bear with his Infirmities and
in your Sins whether I go you cannot come O Friends lay these things to your Hearts what have I to do but to tell you that the Love I have in my Soul to you all makes me desire in my Heart that you might be saved This is the Will of God that you might all be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth Blessed are they which know the Truth the Truth as it is in Jesus Truth in the inward parts hath a speaking Voice and if thou hearken to it it will tell thee that thy state is nought Canst thou believe the Truth when it tells thee so That thy state is nought and that thou art like to go to Eternal Destruction unless there be Repentance and Regeneration to prevent it Canst thou believe this Doctrine when it sounds in thy own Heart If thou canst not Believe it Unbelief will be thy Ruine The Spirit of Truth is come to convince the World of Sin because they believe not in Christ he tells them their Condition and they will not believe him The Spirit of Christ convinceth men of Sin and they believe him not The Spirit of Truth convinceth thee of thy Sin but thou believest him not Thou Lovest thy Pleasure and thy Profit and thine Honour then thou Lovest not God with all thine Heart and then thou art not a Christian but out of Covenant with God Art thou sensible that thy condition is bad were it not best to get it mended After we are convinced of our own sinful state Is it not our best course to seek to have it mended Who shall mend it Saith one I have done all I can to mend my Life and I cannot mend it I have concluded so in my younger years I have Fasted and Prayed and spent time in Hearing Reading and Meditation and did all in my own Power and all to mend my state but I could not mend it and as I grew up in years Sin and Corruption more prevailed and there was no help and I came so far as to believe there was no help and that if God did not help me I was undone to all Eternity I many times wisht that I had never been born I went to Ministers and Meetings and to all sorts of separate People and to all manner of Ordinance and to all manner of Means to mend this bad Heart of mine to see if I could get a Power that would give me Victory over my Corruption but my Arm was never so long as to reach thereunto it was far out of my Power and Reach Many have sought to get this Power of Reforming their Hearts and Lives to attain it by their own hands by their own endeavours but they could never do it they could never better their condition nor bring forth fruit worthy of amendment of Life I wish that every one was come to that pass that they knew not which way to turn them that they were come at last to their Wits end they will come to it sooner or later the sooner the better I have done all I can I can do no more I am at my Wits end and know not what to think concerning my Eternal State I know not what to judge of it I strive against my Lusts and Corruptions but for all that they prevail upon me Temptations come before me but I cannot conquer them O I am glad when People are come to that pass that they know not what to do but to despair of their own Arms of their own Strength and their own Wit and despair of all other help in the World I am glad of that But I am not Preaching up Despair of Gods Grace and Mercy but let me tell you when Men Despair of their own doings and of all outward means and helps then they are fit Objects for the mercy of God and not till then When the Lord looked and saw that there was none to Save and Deliver then his own Arm brought Salvation God will not save t●ll then God will not reveal his Power till Men have done with their own Power they will never Trust God while they think they can do something for themselves All the Forms of Religion of the several People of this Nation will do them little good without the Power What is the meaning of that Principle that have such Masses and Prayers and Performances What is the meaning of it let us search to the bottom They say we are Sinners when we Pray to God for his Blessing and for Salvation by Christ there is this at the bottom They think these Duties and Performances will be very helpful to their state helpful towards the knowledge of it to speak plain English these are their Gods If I speak of Prophane and Wicked People I would say their Lusts is their Gods But when I speak of Righteous People that are meer Formalists then I say their Duties as they call them are their Gods When they have done all they can do nothing for them then they have no Gods at all they are Godless And if God doth not help them they are undone to all Eternity When poor Creatures are Cast out as it were into the open Field to the loathing of their Persons not salted at all nor swadled at all but lying in the Guilt of their Blood When I passed by thee saith the Lord and saw thee polluted in thy own Blood I said unto thee when thou wast in thy Blood yea when thou wast in thy Blood I said unto thee Live When I pass●d by thee and looked upon thee behold thy time was a time of Love and I spread my skirt over thee and covered thy Nakedness yea I sware unto thee and entred into Covenant with thee saith the Lord God and thou becamest mine What was it a time of Love when I was such an Obeject in my own Eyes that I thought I was the most miserable Creature in the World One that could not make a good Prayer nor Dispute for Religion nor Perform any Duty a Poor Creature Cast out into the open Field to the loathing of my Person Lost all that I Gained my Name was from among the Living my Days were passed over in Sorrow and I said there is nothing but Darkness and Death and Misery for me I used all means and tryed all things save only a living Trust in God a trust in God alone and that Flesh and Blood cannot do Flesh and Blood cannot know him therefore Flesh and Blood cannot trust in him Alas said I I cannot trust in the Lord I cannot cast my Soul and all my Concernments my Fame and Reputation in the World I cannot cast all upon the care of the Almighty I cannot know him nor trust in them how can I do it No body can do it They that know my Name saith the Lord they will put their trust in me never a truer word was spoken but how they should know God and trust in him I know not When thou comest once
to the Sate and Frame of the Mind of a Man or Woman that they serve God with whether it be with sincerity and uprightness of mind and with breathing desires that They may know the good and acceptable Will of God and what is well-pleasing in his sight And that they might perform that which is according to his Heavenly will Where this sincerity is where this cry of the Soul is the Lord hath regard to it but where Peoples Religion is only to bear up a Profession and hold up an external Fellowship and Communion one with another when this sincerity is wanting the Lord abhors their Worship it is an abomination to God and no benefit or advantage to themselves It is not for the glory of God that they make a Profession but for some design to themselves and so they become abominable This was the state of Israel of old and it is the state of a great many now that think they do great matters if they conform so far to the Truth as that outwardly they may not be charged with a Lie but that they are of such a Society it is well if some would come so far as to maintain their Society with Gods People and their external Profession but if they have not regard to Truth in their own Consciences what is their Profession worth What will all thy Unity with them signifie If there be a breach between God and thine own Soul who can heal that breach What will their Profession signifie and amount to at last But Go you cursed into Everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels And all the reason to be rendred for it is this Depart from me Ye are workers of Iniquity He did not say in that sentence ye are Lyars you never Prophecyed in my Name and I never preached in your Streets but allowing what they said to be Truth that they had made a Profession and held Communion with other Christians allowing these things yet notwithstanding it is Go ye cursed and the reason of that Sentence is You are workers of Iniquity Let the dread of the God of Heaven rest upon you My Friends it is another thing to make a Profession of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth than most are aware Let every one that Names the Name of Christ depart from Iniquity What is Iniquity It is all things that a Man or Woman doth to gratifie their own wills contrary to the will of God that is Iniquity Where had all Men Liberty Where had Adam and his Sons their Liberty to fulfil their own wills and to contradict the will of God Yet nothing is more common in Nations Countries and Families than for People to assume a Liberty to perform and fulfil their own will and to bring about their own Interest Designs and Contrivances though at the same time they are convinced that it is contrary to the will of God Where this Liberty is taken there Iniquity is wrought that is Iniquity which is unjust that which is committed against him upon whom we have all our dependance every moment for Life and Breath for Food and Raiment and every thing we enjoy we have a dependance upon that God that made us yet vain Men and Women assume a Liberty of gratifying their own Wills and setting up for the Flesh You may remember that passage of the good Apostle when he saw some Libertine Professors of Christianity grow loose and careless it is well they thought that they did acknowledge God in their Meetings and Worship but as to the Affairs of the World they had forgotten that God was concerned in those things the Apostle takes notice of such a Libertine looseness Go to now you that say to Day or to Morrow we will go into such a City and continue there a year and buy and sell and get gain Whereas you know not what shall be on the Morrow For what is your Life It is even a Vapour that appeareth for a little while and then vanisheth away For that you ought to say if the Lord will we shall live and do this or that You ought to live in subjection to him that made you you ought to have regard to Gods honour in whatsoever you do Whether you Eat or Drink or whatsoever you do do all to the glory of God Is not this Scripture Is not this found amongst the Apostles Writings Do not we hold the Name of Christians which was given to them at Antioch Yea we are called Christians and these writings of the Apostle are holy writings and what then is the matter that we take so little notice of them That men do not apply these wholesome Exhortations to the particularities of of their Conversation but that they go from Countrey to Countrey and from one place to another and do what they please without having any regard to give their subjection to to the Great God This Loosness hath brought into the minds of some such a Liberty that they live without God in the World when they go sometimes to Religious Meetings and when they hear the Name of God mentioned it may be there come a little awe upon their minds and they have some regard to that God that gave them Breath and being for the present But if there be not Religion if there be not a Tie Religion signifies a Tie a being bound to God if men be not bound and tied to God by that which is made known to them every one will desire that which is good in their own Eyes Therefore it is necessary for you my Friends above all People you that are come to your measure of the Ministration of the Spirit and know it what it doth speak Such a thing I did this Morning and I am reproved for it Such a thing I did well and I am Justified and warranted in the doing of it Thus it is when a thing is well or ill done Sometimes some Men Act two or three Days together and never bring their Actions to the rule that is like a Man that is building and never minds his rule so what he builds up Tumbles down again upon his Head You know there is something in you that hath a speaking Voice an Infallible Voice and gives Judgment on your Actions and passeth a sentence either of Justification or Condemnation upon you If you would live so as to answer God in what you do you need not fear answering Men I do not fear answering Men in all I do or speak if I do but answer mine own Conscience I fear 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