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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.
and secondly, the infusion of a living or quickening Soul into him, called [Greek or Hebrew] or the Breath of Life. Both these are here distinctly mentioned; the first ascribed to the Spirit of God, the other to his Breath; that is the same Spirit considered in a peculiar way of operation in the Infusion of the rational Soul. Such is the sense of those figurative and enigmatical words; God breathed into Man the Breath of Life; that is by his Spirit he effected a Principle of Life in him, as we shall see afterwards.
and secondly, the infusion of a living or quickning Soul into him, called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 or the Breath of Life. Both these are here distinctly mentioned; the first ascribed to the Spirit of God, the other to his Breath; that is the same Spirit considered in a peculiar way of operation in the Infusion of the rational Soul. Such is the sense of those figurative and oenigmatical words; God breathed into Man the Breath of Life; that is by his Spirit he effected a Principle of Life in him, as we shall see afterwards.
Isa. 11. 2. As he is called a Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, so is he also of Might or Power; and although it may be granted that the things there mentioned are rather Effects of his Operations than Adjuncts of his Nature; yet he who effecteth Wisdom and Power in others, must first have them himself. To this purpose also is that demand, Mich. 2. 7. Is the Spirit of the Lord straitened or shortened? that is, in his Power, that he cannot Work and Operate in the Prophets and his Church as in former days; And the same Prophet, Chap. 3. vers. 8. affirms, That he is full of Power, and of Judgment, and of Might, by the Spirit of the Lord. These things were wrought in him by his Power, as the Apostle speaks to the same purpose, Ephes. 3. 16.