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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.
This is the Design of the ensuing Discourse. There is in the Scripture a Promise of the Holy Ghost to be given unto the Church as a Spirit of Grace and Supplications. As such also, there are particular Operations ascribed unto him. Mention is likewise frequently made of the Aids and Assistances which he affords unto Believers in and unto their Prayers. Hence they are said to PRAY ALWAYS, WITH ALL PRAYER AND SUPPLICATIONS IN THE SPIRIT. Of the want of these Aids and Assistances to enable them to pray according to the Mind of God, some do profess that they have Experience, as also of their Efficacy unto that End when they are received. Accordingly these regulate themselves in this whole Duty, in the Expectation or Improvement of them. And there are those who, being accommodated with other Aids of another Nature, to the same ⟨image 3⟩purpose, which they esteem sufficient for them, do look on the former Profession and Plea of an Ability to pray by the Aids and Assistances of the Holy Spirit, to be a mere empty pretence.
This is the Design of the ensuing Discourse. There is in the Scripture a Promise of the Holy Ghost to be given unto the Church as a Spirit of Grace and Supplications. As such also, there are particular Operations ascribed unto him. Mention is likewise frequently made of the Aids and Assistances which he affords unto Believers in and unto their Prayers. Hence they are said to PRAY ALWAYS, WITH ALL PRAYER AND SUPPLICATIONS IN THE SPIRIT. Of the want of these Aids and Assistances to enable them to pray according to the Mind of God, some do profess that they have Experience, as also of their Efficacy unto that End when they are received. Accordingly these regulate themselves in this whole Duty, in the Expectation or Improvement of them. And there are those who, being accommodated with other Aids of another Nature, to the same ⟨image 3⟩purpose, which they esteem sufficient for them, do look on the former Profession and Plea of an Ability to pray by the Aids and Assistances of the Holy Spirit, to be a meer empty pretence.