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Pneumatologia, or A Discourse concerning the Holy Spirit
Pneumatologia, or, A discourse concerning the Holy Spirit wherein an account is given of his name, nature, personality, dispensation, operations, and effects : his whole work in the old and new creation is explained, the doctrine concerning it vindicated from oppositions and reproaches : the nature also and necessity of Gospel-holiness the difference between grace and morality, or a spiritual life unto God in evangelical obedience and a course of moral virtues, are stated and declared / by John Owen ...Pneumatologia, or, A discourse concerning the Holy Spirit wherein an account is given of his name, nature, personality, dispensation, operations, and effects : his whole work in the old and new creation is explained, the doctrine concering it vindicated from oppositions and reproaches : the nature also and necessity of Gospel-holiness the difference between grace and morality, or a spiritual life unto God in evangelical obedience and a course of moral vertues, are stated and declared / by John Owen ...
London: printed by F. Darby for Nathaniel Ponder, 1676
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.
They may I say do so who are not slothful in hearing or learning, but by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both Good and Evil.
Wherefore the Subject of the ensuing Discourses being entirely things of this Nature in their several Degrees of Access unto God or our selves, I shall give no account of any particular Endeavours in my Enquiries into them, but leave the Judgment thereof unto the Evidence of the Effects produced thereby. Only whereas I know not any who ever went before me in this Design of representing the whole Economy of the Holy Spirit, with all his Adjuncts, Operations and Effects, whereof this is the first Part (the Attempt of Crellius in this kind being only to corrupt the Truth in some few Instances) as the Difficulty of my work was increased thereby, so it may plead my Excuse, if any thing be found not to answer so regular a Projection, or just a Method as the nature of the Subject requireth, and as was aimed at.
Wherefore the Subject of the ensuing Discourses being intirely things of this Nature in their several Degrees of Access unto God or our selves, I shall give no account of any particular Endeavours in my Enquiries into them, but leave the Judgment thereof unto the Evidence of the Effects produced thereby. Only whereas I know not any who ever went before me in this Design of representing the whole Oeconomy of the Holy Spirit, with all his Adjuncts, Operations and Effects, whereof this is the first Part (the Attempt of Crellius in this kind being only to corrupt the Truth in some few Instances) as the Difficulty of my work was encreased thereby, so it may plead my Excuse, if any thing be found not to answer so regular a Projection, or just a Method as the nature of the Subject requireth, and as was aymed at.
In the first Part of the whole Work which concerneth the Name, Divine Nature, Personality and Mission of the Holy Spirit, I do but declare and defend the faith of the Catholic Church against the Socinians; with what Advantage, with what contribution of Light or Evidence, strength or order unto what hath been pleaded before by others, is left unto the Learned Readers to judg and determine. And in what concerns the Adjuncts and Properties of his Mission and Operation, some may, and I hope do judg themselves not unbeholding unto me for administering an occasion unto them of deeper and better Thoughts about them.