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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 5: Particular Actings of the Holy Spirit as a Comforter. How he is an Unction.
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.
3. THAT the Lord Christ was anointed and how, is declared, Isa. 61. 1. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me. His Unction consisted principally in the Communication of the Spirit unto him. For he proves that the Spirit of the Lord was upon him, because he was anointed. And this gives us a general Rule, that the anointing with material Oil under the Old Testament, did prefigure and represent the Effusion of the Spirit under the New, which now answers all the Ends of those Typical Institutions. Hence the Gospel in opposition unto them all in the Letter, outwardly, visibly, and materially is called the Ministration of the Spirit, 2 Cor. 3. 6, 8. So is the Unction of Christ expressed, Isa. 11. 2. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and Might, the Spirit of Knowledge and of the Fear of the Lord.
3. THAT the Lord Christ was anointed and how, is declared, Isa. 61. 1. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath anointed me. His Unction consisted principally in the Communication of the Spirit unto him. For he proves that the Spirit of the Lord was upon him, because he was anointed. And this gives us a general Rule, that the anointing with material Oyl under the Old Testament, did presigure and represent the Effusion of the Spirit under the New, which now answers all the Ends of those Typical Institutions. Hence the Gospel in opposition unto them all in the Letter, outwardly, visibly, and materially is called the Ministration of the Spirit, 2 Cor. 3. 6, 8. So is the Unction of Christ expressed, Isa. 11. 2. The Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding, the Spirit of Counsel and Might, the Spirit of Knowledge and of the Fear of the Lord.