Stephen Crisp
Stephen Crisp
Stephen Crisp (1628-1692) is an example of one whose desperate search for Truth (lasting twenty long years) at last brought him to an experiential knowledge of the grace and truth that are in Jesus Christ. Having found the Pearl of great price, he sold all to buy it, and became an eminent preacher and writer among the early Society of Friends. For the remaining thirty-five years of his life, he labored in the power and wisdom of the Spirit, traveling throughout England, Scotland, Holland, and Germany, and writing many valuable epistles and treatises to the church in both the English and Dutch languages.
There was perhaps, with the exception of George Fox, no individual who had upon him a greater share of the weight and charge of the new Society [of Friends] than Stephen Crisp.
- Samuel Tuke
Books by Stephen Crisp
A Plain Pathway
A Plain Pathway
A treatise describing the nature of Christ’s appearance in the heart as a reprover for sin and transgression, and the necessity and benefit of submitting to His light and grace in order to be washed from within, and transformed into His likeness.
- 30 pages
- exhortation
- Audio Book
- 926 Downloads
Selection from the Journal of Stephen Crisp
Selection from the Journal of Stephen Crisp
A selection from the journal of Stephen Crisp, giving an account of his strong desires after purity when young, his convincement of the truth through the ministry of James Parnell, and his subsequent ministry and fatherly oversight in the early Society of Friends.
- 44 pages
- journal, letters
- Audio Book
- 182 Downloads
A Short History of a Long Travel from Babylon to Bethel
A Short History of a Long Travel from Babylon to Bethel
A short but instructive allegory by Stephen Crisp written to illustrate the perilous journey of the Christian soul from Babylon (the man-made city of religious confusion) to Bethel, the true dwelling place of God.
- 28 pages
- allegory
- Audio Book
- 294 Downloads
Complete Works of Stephen Crisp
Complete Works of Stephen Crisp
The complete works of Stephen Crisp, including his full journal, a collection of letters to individuals and epistles to churches, various papers, treatises, and defenses of Friend’s principles, and testimonies to his faithfulness in the work of the gospel.
- 391 pages
- journal, letters
- 119 Downloads
Sermons of Stephen Crisp
Sermons of Stephen Crisp
A collection of thirty-two extemporaneous sermons or exhortations preached by Stephen Crisp principally at the Gracechurch-Street and Devonshire meeting houses in London, between the years 1687 and 1692. These were taken down in short-hand, transcribed, and anonymously published in 1694.
- 442 pages
- exhortation, doctrinal, spiritual life
- 164 Downloads
“For though it is true that none can obey the Lord but by His grace and power given unto them, yet He has made His grace—even that grace which brings salvation—appear unto all men, as is said in Titus 2:11. And this grace has appeared unto you, and in you, to whom I write, and is a reprover in you. You must therefore turn to that which smites you, and then you turn to the grace of God.”
— Stephen Crisp