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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 Second Volume OF Mr. Stephen Crisp's SERMONS THE acceptance which the First Volume of the Sermons of this Author has obtained from Persons of different Perswasions hath occasioned the Publishing a Second of which many seem very desirous I shall say no more of thew let the Works speak for themselves but will only add that the Writer is still willing to satisfie any Inquisitive Doubter none of whom he has hitherto met with that these as well as the former are the Genuine Declarations of Mr. Stephen Crisp without any addition or alteration he having used the utmost exactness in taking and Transcribing them and his care and acuracy therein has been acknowledged and confirmed by many Ear-Witnesses who have heard them from the mouth of the Preacher 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 Devonshire-House London And now Faithfully Transcribed and Published With some of his Prayers after Sermon LONDON Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultrey near Cheapside 1693 Sermon I. Truths Testimony against the Power of Sin and Satan Preached in Grace-Church-Street June 13. 1688. My Friends GOD hath made you Witnesses of the great Work of this Day the Lord I say hath given you Eyes to see and Ears to hear and Hearts to understand the great Work of the Day he hath called you forth that you may be faithful Witnesses every one in your measure of that which he hath brought to pass in your sight for he hath revealed his Power the Eternal Power by which the World was made he hath revealed and manifested that power for the raising up of Life for the subjecting and bringing under death and the Power of it for a great while a Testimony that hath been born in the Nation hath been unto Death he that hath the Power of Death that is the Devil he hath had a great many to sound out his Power to declare the continuance of his Power how that Death must Reign and Darkness must continue and that the Kingdom of the Man of Sin will never be brought down But now in our Day Glory to God on high here is another sound come forth the Lord Jehovah hath uttered his voice and who can but Prophesie The word of Prophecy is given of God and many are raised up to publish it and to sound forth the Name of the Lord in the Expiration the Ruine and Destruction that is and shall be brought upon the Kingdom of Iniquity upon the Kingdom of the Man of Sin and to Prophesie and declare in the name of the Lord that Righteousness shall run down like a stream this is the Gospel the glad tidings that we receive from God and have ministred unto you that you might believe and that believing you might come to wait upon the Lord and behold the accomplishment of it For my Friends herein hath consisted all the labour and travel and exercise of the Servants of the Lord and for this cause have we suffered many things and gone through many Trials because we have stedfastly believed and therefore we have spoken it that the Lord will certainly by his Almighty Power lay waste destroy and bring to an end that Power that the Wicked one the Devil hath had upon the Minds and Spirits of the Sons and Daughters of Men and that he will set up and establish in the very same Soul a Law of Righteousness and a Law of Truth and will cause the Beauty of Holiness to shine forth through them where Iniquity hath Lodged where the wicked one hath Ruled Now you that have believed this Testimony you have received it as glad tidings unto you for you are weary of that old Service you are oppressed under the Power of that strange Prince there was a kind of Spirit and Power that had Ruled over you that neither gave you life nor breath nor had done any good thing and yet you were subject and many there were who through the grace of God that came to see that State and Condition of Sin and Iniquity was not a happy State and by a secret kindling of the Sparks of Gods Love in your Souls e'er you knew him there was a Cry raised to be delivered if it be possible If there be any Deliverance O why may not I be delivered If there be any Redemption why may not I be redeemed If there be a Power that can set me free from the Service of this Wicked one why may not I be set free Ah Friends remember the Days and Nights in which these Living Cries did run through you then you was poor indeed then you was humble and broken and the Lord beheld you in those days he saw your State and Condition he saw how helpless you were and did not he arise to help you Did not a Power spring forth in the Day of your humility in the day of tenderness by which you became able to make War against the Lusts of your own Hearts and did not you overcome and prevail in your War did not you make progress by the Power and by the Grace that first raised desires in you and as you made this progress and gained ground as I may say of your own Corruptions your Faith came to be strengthned and you were confirmed in the belief and in the obedience of the Truth and the more you trusted and relied upon him the more did he magnifie his Power in you he made known his ability and his strength in your weakness so that you did become Living Witnesses every one in your measure that there was such a Power and that that Power was able not only to save from a little or from a few but was able to save to the uttermost to save out of all that was polluted and defiled and to cleanse and purifie the Conscience from all dead Works and to enable you to serve the Living God Now the Lord having thus established you and confirmed you by his Power that you were sound in the Faith and firm in the believing of the Truth My Friends all the Labour and Travel and Doctrine and Exercises of the Preachers of the Gospel to those who were Converted and Confirmed became very acceptable So we preached and so you believed here was an Unity in our Faith here grew up a Fellowship a Communion in the Faith and the Lord became glorifi●d in the Assemblies both of them that preached and of them that heard because each one had a place in the Body and each one had a Saviour of the word of Life by which the Body was nourished Now my Friends that which lies particularly upon me to leave with you for my Testimony and I pray to God it may be placed in the hearts of all you that have believed that is that you may all wait

despise not the Day of small things live in subjection to that Grace that the Lord hath given you and the Lord will give you more Grace and pour out his Spirit and multiply his Blessings upon you the Lord hath begun a good work in you and he will carry it on to the day of Christ and will vouchsafe to bring the Glorious Day of his Visitation upon you To the Lord I leave you to his Favour and Protection I commit you remember that there is no Salvation but by Jesus Christ and none to be had by Christ till you come to Believe in him to him that searcheth the Heart and tries the Reins that pardoneth Iniquity Transgression and Sin for the sake of Christ Jesus the Mediatour to him I do commit you not doubting but that he that hath begun a good work in you will at last compleat and finish it to his own Praise and your Salvation Sermon IX The Excellency of Peace with God Preached at Devonshire-House August 5. 1691. My Friends IT is Mans great happiness in this World to have Acquaintance with God with the Lord that made him from whom he hath Life and Breath here and his Eternal welfare hereafter this doubtless every one will acknowledge one time or other that peace with God is a great Jewel and the best Estate and Riches It is the great desire of every one that they may attain this one time or other and there is a great neglect of happiness among the Sons and Daughters of Men in not seeking of it and not labouring to attain it while it is to be had Oh! how many trifle away their time about fading and perishing Objects and they know at the same instant that they are yet destitute of the favour of God and of peace with him Oh Friends the very thoughts and consideration of the worth of this Jewel and of the misery of being without it and of the uncertainty of our time while it is to be attained might put every one upon a serious diligent enquiry after the way and means whereby they might attain it that so they might have a resting place for their Souls and satisfaction to their inward Man that it shall go well with them when time shall be no more And they that come to this Consideration and are resolved in their hearts and minds that they will labour after this and set their whole endeavour after i● they will in the first place seek the Kingdom of God and the Righteousness thereof These do need a daily encouragement in their way to Heaven and there is nothing on the Lords part wanting to such Souls but that they may attain their desire But alas this hath been and is still the misery of thousands they are seeking after peace with God but they err in the way to it they do not seek in that way nor take hold of those Methods by and through which God hath promised Peace you shall scarce meet with any body but they would have Eternal Life and Peace with God we shall not need to perswade People to wish for and to desire to have Peace with God when they shall come to die and lay down their heads in the dust There is not a Balaam but he desires to die the Death of the Righteous and that his last end may be like his There is not a Scribe or Pharisee or any that profess Religion but they are seeking after Eternal Life The Lord Jesus did witness concerning them that they were an envious proud persecuting People yet that they did seek after Eternal Life and they pitched upon some Methods and Ways whereby they thought to get and enjoy it but all this was errour still they were out of the way of attaining it and so are a great many people at this very day they are in a State and Condition wherein they are never like to enjoy it the Methods and the ways that they have chosen to themselves to find Eternal Life by and to obtain peace with God will never answer the end And God hath been pleased to discover to us the many by ways that People have chosen and seek after peace with God by therefore we are willing at all times to shew People their errour in these great matters of highest concernment to them If they did err in their way of seeking to obtain some earthly good and missed of their end they know the price of it it is but a loss of so much which if they had taken a right course they might have attained but it is an unspeakable loss an inestimable loss if they lose peace with God and all the pains and labour they are at to obtain it I beseech you Friends consider these things they are of great weight and you will say so one day or other for saith our Saviour what will it profit a Man to gain the whole World and lose his own Soul or what shall a Man give in exchange for his Soul O how sad is it to consider that a Man hath not made provision for his Soul that he hath not a place of rest for his immortal Soul and that the arms of the Lord Jesus Christ are not open to receive his Soul when his Body can retain it no longer If this be a Mans state when he comes to die it had been better for him that he had never been born Men may live and gather Riches and enjoy a plentiful Estate but if they be destitute of the favour of God and peace with him what will they do with these perishing enjoyments they cannot possibly satisfie themselves with these Transitory visible things but if these persons only mind their Bodies and neglect their Souls do they not live like the Beasts that perish The Beast seeks after his Meat and when he finds it he eats it with delight and pleasure and in a little while he lies down and dies and there is an end so it is with careless Souls that have no regard to their future State but they say Let us eat and drink and be merry for to morrow we shall die Oh that every one of us here did apply our hearts seriously to the consideration of the weight of these things that concern our Eternal State if persons did this then they might come to an enquiry in their own Souls what method and way is most safe for the attaining of so blessed an end For you know there are abundance of People if you look up and down in the World you will see every body almost hunting up and down in some way of Religion or other and are engaged in Religious Performances what is the matter what would you have We would have peace with God here and everlasting Rest hereafter in the Kingdom of Heaven that we would have Thus have the Nations been scattered and driven up and down in the pursuit of Happiness and Satisfaction There is a general Belief amongst people that there is a Heaven and a

Devil and to be led Captive and to be made to do his Will and to Rebel against God that gave us our Life and our Breath and Being how do we like that Government of Satan I hope we do none of us like it It was so with me and they that are under the Tyrannical Government of Satan have many Cries and Wishes in their Souls that they were freed and delivered from it and brought under the Government and Obedience of Christ Jesus and that they were able to serve God as they ought to do that they might be translated from the Kingdom of Sin and Satan into the Kingdom of the blessed and dearly beloved Son of God This hath been the cry of some ever since they have known the World and I am perswaded it is the cry of many at this day I have good news to bring you not that the day of your Redemption draws nigh but that it is come the day of Redemption is now come and there are a great many blessing and glorifying the Name of God that they are redeemed and delivered from the bondage of Corruption and have more joy and delight in the service of God that made them than ever they had in the service of the God of this World But may not some say how shall this great work be wrought for it is a great work and we verily think that nothing but an Almighty Power can effect it for there are many in this Assembly have been trying to no purpose and done what they could in their own strength to deliver their own Souls from Death and yet they find themselves in bondage still nay they have called in the help and assistance of those that they thought to be stronger than themselves and all have failed and they are yet weak and intangled and they cannot find themselves at liberty to serve the Lord as they ought to do I am of this mind that nothing but the Almighty power of God can do it and when you come to to my experience to know this as I have done then I hope you will seek after that and you will see good reason for it and you will then come to this Position if the Lord doth not help me I am undone if the Lord puts not forth his Almighty Power I must then perish for there is no other Power can deliver me when you come to know this what must you do Why you must wait for the Revelation of that power that will take you off from all trust and confidence that you have ever had in any thing else a Man that hath nothing to trust to but the Almighty Power and Mercy and Goodness of God he puts his whole trust and confidence therein or else he knows he must perish When a Man or Woman comes to this pass that they have nothing to rely upon but the Lord then they will meet together to wait upon the Lord and this was the first ground and motive of our setting up Meetings and I would to God that that was the use that every one would make of them that come to them then they would be justly and properly used according to the end of the institution of them at first we should use them as poor desolate helpless People that are broken off from all their own confidence and trust and have nothing to rely upon but the mercy and goodness of God and if he pleaseth ro reveal his power among us we know that he is able to save us and we have met with the Revelation of Gods Power and when we have met together in simplicity of Mind the Lord was pleased to communicate his Spirit to us and open a door for us and discover and reveal to us that it was the day of his Power And when we came to examine our selves whether we were willing in this day of Gods Power for the Prophet gives us a note of distinction between the People of God and other People Thy People shall be willing in the day of thy Power which is as much as to say God discovers and reveals his Power to them such a People are willing to give themselves over to the government of it when we found we were subject to it we had joy in believing before we attained the end of our hope it was gladness to us that we found our selves willing and I am perswaded that every one of you would be glad to find your selves willing to part with that which you cry out of What a cry is there of our Bondage and Corruption and of our being led Captive by our Lusts we may hear such a cry from one end of the Kingdom to the other People cry out of the Bondage of Corruption and of their subjection to Sin and Satan I would they were in earnest there is not that earnestness and reality in Men and Women that God looks for and so there comes nothing of it There is no redemption and no deliverance the Lord doth not hear them though they come now a days into his Presence to offer up their Prayers and Supplications I would have you be in good earnest I wish well to you all and it would be hard to say that you do not wish well to your selves Here lies your welfare that you find your selves willing to be subject to the Power that made you you have been subject doubless to the Power that destroyed you that Power that never gave you Life and B●eath hath been instrumental of your Destruction The Power of the God of this World never did men good but destroyed them deceived them and deprived them of their Lives Now if there was but a willingness in every one of us freely to give up our selves to that Power that Created us to obey his will I am sure there is never a Man or Woman among us shall long be without the knowledge of it If I am but willing to be subject to the Law of him that made me it will not be long before he discover it to me and reveal his Power in me in the glory and excellency of it that Power which is more able to preserve me than all the Power of Men on Earth or all the Power of the Devils in Hell is able to destroy me When the Lord shall discover and reveal his Power in you you will be willing to be subject to it But methinks the sound and noise of Flesh and Blood grows loud here I would be subject to God but I would not have him cross mine interest and deprive me of that I love and thrist after I would not have him imbitter my Carnal Delights and Pleasures and undo me as to my Reputation in the World You may see whence this comes that you would make a bargain and draw a contract with the God of your Lives about these things this is a Nonsensical thing because of all People in the World you are a People that have had a veneration for the Holy