Sermons of Stephen Crisp

by: Stephen Crisp

These thirty-two “sermons” or declarations of Stephen Crisp were all delivered extemporaneously in meetings in and about London between the years 1687 and 1692, and were taken down in short-hand and later published by an anonymous person who was deeply impacted by them. In his preface to the sermons, the unknown publisher assures the reader that “he has not in the least altered or imposed upon the preacher’s sense, either in the taking or transcribing of them.” And though he says he is not, nor ever was, a member of the Society of friends, yet he found these sermons “to contain so many gospel truths, delivered with such plainness, zeal and demonstration, and generally agreeable to the known doctrines of Christianity, that it is hoped the publishing of them may be useful to the world.” (Original title: Scripture Truths Demonstrated In Thirty-Two Sermons, Or Declarations of Stephen Crisp, Late of Colchester, in Essex, Deceased. Carefully Taken in Characters or Short-Hand, as They Were Delivered by Him at the Public Meeting-Houses of the People Called Quakers, in and about London. Faithfully Transcribed and Published, Together with His Prayers after Sermon.)