Background
He was the third son of Ellis Crisp, once sheriff of London, who died in 1625, and was born in 1600 in Bread Street, London.
He was the third son of Ellis Crisp, once sheriff of London, who died in 1625, and was born in 1600 in Bread Street, London.
Balliol College; Christ"s College. Eton College.
After leaving Eton College he matriculated at Christ"s College, Cambridge, remaining at Cambridge until he had taken his Bachelor of Arts, when he removed to Balliol College, Oxford, graduating Master of Arts in 1626. In 1627 he was presented to the rectory of Newington Butts, from which he was removed a few months later on account of having been a party to a simoniacal contract. Later in the same year he was presented to the rectory of Brinkworth in Wiltshire, where he became popular as preacher and host.
When he obtained the degree of Doctor of Divinity is not known, but it was before 1642, when he was compelled to leave his rectory because of persecution by royalist soldiers.
He retired to London in August 1642. While at Brinkworth he had been suspected of antinomianism, and as soon as his opinions became known from his preaching in London, his theories on the doctrine of free grace were bitterly attacked.
Towards the close of this year he held a controversy on this subject with fifty-two opponents. He died of smallpox on 27 February 1643, and was buried in Saint Mildred"s Church, Bread Street.
And future member of the council of state, by whom he had thirteen children.