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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
Book 1 › Chapter 1: General Principles Concerning the HOLY SPIRIT AND HIS WORK. CHAP. I.
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Sect. 11 Secondly; The great work of the Holy Ghost in the Dispensation and ⟨p. 11⟩*Ministration of the Gospel unto all the Ends of it, is another evidence unto the same Purpose. Hence the Gospel it self is called the Ministration of the Spirit, in opposition to that of the Law, which is called the Ministration of the Letter and of Condemnation, 2 Cor. 3. 8. [Greek or Hebrew], the Ministry of the Spirit, is either that Ministry which the Spirit makes effectual; or that Ministry whereby the Spirit in his Gifts and Graces is communicated unto Men. And this is that which gives unto the Ministry of the Gospel both its Glory and its Efficacy. Take away the Spirit from the Gospel and you render it a dead Letter, and leave the New-Testament of no more use unto Christians than the Old-Testament is of unto the Jews. It is therefore a mischievous imagination proceeding from Ignorance Blindness and Unbelief, that there is no more in the Gospel, but what is contained under any other Doctrine or Declaration of Truth; that it is nothing but a Book for men to exercise their Reason in and upon, and to improve the things of it by the same Faculty. For this is to separate the Spirit or the Dispensation of the Spirit from it, which is in Truth to destroy it. And therewith is the Covenant of God rejected, which is, that his Word and Spirit shall go together, Isa. 59. v. 20. 21. We shall therefore, God assisting manifest in our Progress, that the whole Ministry of the Gospel, the whole Use and Efficacy of it, do depend on that Ministration of the Spirit wherewith according to the Promise of God it is accompanied. If therefore we have any concernment in, or have ever received any benefit by the Gospel or the Ministration of it, we have a signal Duty lying before us in the matter in hand.
Sect. 11 Secondly; The great work of the Holy Ghost in the Dispensation and ⟨p. 11⟩*Ministration of the Gospel unto all the Ends of it, is another evidence unto the same Purpose. Hence the Gospel it self is called the Ministration of the Spirit, in opposition to that of the Law, which is called the Ministration of the Letter and of Condemnation,