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A discourse of the work of the Holy Spirit in prayer with a brief…
A discourse of the work of the Holy Spirit in prayer with a brief enquiry into the nature and use of mental prayer and forms / by John Owen ...
London: printed for Nathanael Ponder, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. VIII.
The Duty of External Prayer by Virtue of a spiritual Gift explained and Vindicated.
The Duty of External Prayer by Vertue of ae spiritual Gift explained and Vindicated.
WHAT we have hitherto discoursed concerning the Work of the Spirit of Grace and Supplication enabling Believers to pray or to cry Abba Father, belongeth principally unto the internal spiritual nature of the Duty and the Exercise of Grace therein, wherein we have occasionally only diverted unto the Consideration of the Interest of Words; and the use of set forms, either freely or imposed. And indeed what hath been evinced from Scripture Testimony herein, doth upon the matter render all further dispute about these things needless. For if the things mentioned be required unto all acceptable Prayer, and if they are truly effected in the minds ⟨p. 122⟩of all Believers by the Holy Ghost, it is evident how little use there remains of such pretended Aids.
WHAT we have hitherto discoursed concerning the Work of the Spirit of Grace and Supplication enabling Believers to pray or to cry Abba Father, belongeth principally unto the internal spiritual nature of the Duty and the Exercise of Grace therein, wherein we have occasionally only diverted unto the Consideration of the Interest of Words; and the use of set formes, either freely or imposed. And indeed what hath been evinced from Scripture Testimony herein, doth upon the matter render all further dispute about these things needless. For if the things mentioned be required unto all acceptable Prayer, and if they are truly effected in the minds ⟨p. 122⟩