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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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And yet it were to be wished that even here bounds might be fixed unto the fierceness of some Mens Spirits. But they will not suffer themselves to be so confined. In many Places they are transported with Rage, and Fury, so as to stir up Persecution against such as are really anointed with the Spirit of Christ, and that for no other Reason but because they are so. Gal. 4. 29. Other things indeed are pretended by them, but but all the World may see that they are not of such importance as to give Countenance unto their wrath. This is the Latent cause which stirs it up, and is oftentimes openly expressed.
Sect. 27 These things at present are charged only as the Miscarriages of Private Persons. When they are received in Churches, they are the Cause of, and an Entrance into a Fatal Defection and Apostasy. From the Foundation of the World the Principal Revelation that God made of himself, was in the Oneness of his Nature, and his Monarchy over all. And herein the Person of the Father was immediately represented with his Power and Authority. For he is the Fountain and Original of the Deity, the other Persons as to their Subsistence being of him. Only he did withal give out Promises concerning the peculiar Exhibition of the Son in the Flesh in an appointed season, as also of the Holy Spirit to be given by him in an especial manner. Hereby were their Persons to be signally glorified in this World; it being the Will of God that all Men should honour the Son, as they honoured the Father; and the Holy Spirit in like manner. In this state of things, the only Apostasy of the Church could be Polytheism and Idolatry. Accordingly so it came to pass. The Church of Israel was continually prone to these Abominations; so that scarcely a Generation passed, or very few, wherein the Body of the People did not more or less defile themselves with them. To wean and recover them from this Sin was the Principal End of the Preaching of those Prophets which God from time to time sent unto them, 2 Kings 17. 13. And this also ⟨p. 25⟩