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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.
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.
But through a neglect of it, accompanied with an ungrounded boldness and curiosity, they have hearkened in other things to deceiving Spirits, and have been engaged beyond a recovery, before they have considered that by their cogging deceits they have been cheated of all the principal Articles of their Faith; by which, if at first they had steadily tried and examined them, they might have been preserved from their Snares.
But through a neglect of it, accompanied with an ungrounded boldness and curiosity, they have hearkned in other things to deceiving Spirits, and have been engaged beyond a recovery, before they have considered that by their cogging deceits they have been cheated of all the principal Articles of their Faith; by which, if at first they had steadily tryed and examined them, they might have been preserved from their Snares.
Sect. 22 ⟨p. 18⟩The Jews say well, that there was a double trial of Prophets under the Old Testament; the one by their Doctrine, the other by their Predictions. That by their Doctrine, namely, whether they seduced Men from the Worship of the true God unto Idolatry, belonged unto all individual Persons of the Church. Direction for this is given Deut. 13. 2, 3. If the Prophet giveth a Sign or a Wonder, and it come to pass, (effect any thing by a seeming presence of an extraordinary Power) and say, Let us go serve other Gods, thou shalt not hearken unto him. Let his Signs and Wonders be what they would the People were to try them by what they taught. The Judgment upon Predictions was left unto the Sanhedrin; for which Directions are given Deut. 18. 20, 21, 22. And by virtue hereof they falsely and cruelly endeavoured to take away the Life of Jeremiah, because he foretold the Ruin of them and their City, Chap. 26. v. 11. In the first place, though his Sign, Wonder, or Prediction came to pass, yet the Doctrine he sought to confirm by it being false, he was to be rejected. In the latter, the fulfilling of his Sign acquitted him, because he taught with it nothing in point of Doctrine that was false. The first kind of trial of the Spirits of Prophets is the Duty of all Believers under the Gospel. And those who would deprive them of this Liberty would make Brutes of them instead of Christians; unless to believe a Man knows not what, and to obey he knows not why, be the Properties of Christians, see