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Two discourses concerning the Holy Spirit, and His work the one, Of the Spirit…
Two discourses concerning the Holy Spirit, and His work the one, Of the Spirit as a comforter, the other, As He is the author of spiritual gifts ... / by ... John Owen.
London: printed for William Marshall, 1693
Chapter 4: Inhabitation of the Spirit, the first thing promised.
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.
This therefore being so expressly, so frequently affirmed in the Scripture, and the Comfort of the Church which depends thereon being singular and eminent, it is unto me an important Article of Evangelical Truth.
This therefore being so expresly, so frequently affirmed in the Scripture, and the Comfort of the Church which depends thereon being singular and eminent, it is unto me an important Article of Evangelical Truth.
3. ALTHOUGH all the principal Actings of the Holy Spirit in us, and towards us as a Comforter, do depend on this Head, or flow from this Spring of his Inhabitation, yet in the Confirmation of it's Truth, I shall here name one or two, by which it self is evidenced, and it's Benefits unto the Church declared.
(1) THIS is the Spring of his gracious Operations in us. So our Saviour himself declares it. The Water that I shall give unto him, shall be in him a Well of Water springing up into everlasting Life, John 4. 14. The Water here promised is the Holy Spirit, called the Gift of God, Ver. 10. This is evident from that parallel place, John 7. 38, 39. where this Living Water is plainly declared to be the Holy Ghost. And this Water which is given unto any, is to be in him, and there to abide, which is but a Metaphorical Expression of the Inhabitation of the Spirit. For it is to be in him as a Well, as a Living Fountain, which cannot be spoke of any gracious ⟨p. 59⟩