{"id":21283,"date":"2024-04-07T23:36:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T23:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=21283"},"modified":"2024-04-07T23:36:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T23:36:54","slug":"the-life-and-testimony-of-tobias-crisp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2024\/04\/the-life-and-testimony-of-tobias-crisp\/","title":{"rendered":"The Life And Testimony Of Tobias Crisp"},"content":{"rendered":"

William Rushton:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Tobias Crisp, like many others of the Lord\u2019s people, was, in his earlier years, a zealous Arminian and very indefatigable in his ministerial duties. But it pleased God several years before his death to lead his mind into the heights and depths of free grace and everlasting love and to establish his soul in an extraordinary manner in the faith of imputed righteousness. This soon procured for him the surname of Antinomian, though all who knew him, both professors and profane, were witnesses to his uncommon devotedness to God and to the holiness of his life. After his strength was greatly spent by constant and laborious preaching, praying, &c., often whole nights, to the ruin of his health, he died in 1642. But the same truths which were his support in life were his triumph in death. “He manifested,” says Mr. Lancaster, “such faith, such joy, such a quiet and appeased conscience, such triumph over death and hell, as made the standers-by amazed. And withal he forgot not to profess before some present the steadfastness of his faith to this effect; \u2018that as he had lived in the free grace of God through Christ, so he did with confidence and great joy, even as much as his present condition was capable of, resign his life and soul into the hands of his most dear Father.\u2019 His son, Mr. S. Crisp, informs us that a few moments before his departure out of this world he said to friends by his bed-side, \u2018Where are all those that dispute against the free grace of God and what I have taught thereof? I am now ready to answer them all;\u2019 and so he fell asleep.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Tobias Crisp, like many others of the Lord\u2019s people, was, in his earlier years, a zealous Arminian and very indefatigable in his ministerial duties. But it pleased God several years before his death to lead his mind into the heights and depths of free grace and everlasting love and to establish his soul in an extraordinary manner in the faith of imputed righteousness. This soon procured for him the surname of Antinomian, though all who knew him, both professors and profane, were witnesses to his uncommon devotedness to God and to the holiness of his life. After his strength was greatly spent by constant and laborious preaching, praying, &c., often whole nights, to the ruin of his health, he died in 1642. But the same truths which were his support in life were his triumph in death. “He manifested,” says Mr. Lancaster, “such faith, such joy, such a quiet and appeased conscience, such triumph over death and hell, as made the standers-by amazed. And withal he forgot not to profess before some present the steadfastness of his faith to this effect; \u2018that as he had lived in the free grace of God through Christ, so he did with confidence and great joy, even as much as his present condition was capable of, resign his life and soul into the hands of his most dear Father.\u2019 His son, Mr. S. Crisp, informs us that a few moments before his departure out of this world he said to friends by his bed-side, \u2018Where are all those that dispute against the free grace of God and what I have taught thereof? I am now ready to answer them all;\u2019 and so he fell asleep.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":17940,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1328],"tags":[1226,1202],"class_list":["post-21283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tobias-crisp","tag-gospel-preachers","tag-hyper-calvinism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21284,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21283\/revisions\/21284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}