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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
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. MAN by his Sin had universally forfeited his whole Right unto all the Ends of his Creation, both on the Earth below, and in Heaven above. Death and Hell were become all that the whole Race of Mankind had either Right or Title unto. But yet all the glorious things that God had provided were not to be cast away, an Heir was to be provided for them. Abraham when he was old and rich had no Child, complained that his Steward, a ⟨p. 96⟩Servant was to be his Heir, Gen. 15. 3, 4. but God lets him know that he would provide another Heir for him of his own Seed. When Man had lost his right unto the whole Inheritance of Heaven and Earth, God did not so take the Forfeiture, as to seize it all into the Hands of Justice and destroy it: But he invested the whole Inheritance in his Son, making him the Heir of all. This he was meet for, as being God's Eternal Son by Nature, and hereof the Donation was free, gratuitous and absolute. And this Grant was confirmed unto him by his Unction with the Fullness of the Spirit. But,
3. MAN by his Sin had universally forfeited his whole Right unto all the Ends of his Creation, both on the Earth below, and in Heaven above. Death and Hell were become all that the whole Race of Mankind had either Right or Title unto. But yet all the glorious things that God had provided were not to be cast away, an Heir was to be provided for them. Abraham when he was old and rich had no Child, complained that his Steward, a ⟨p. 96⟩Servant was to be his Heir, Gen. 15. 3, 4. but God lets him know that he would provide another Heir for him of his own Seed. When Man had lost his right unto the whole Inheritance of Heaven and Earth, God did not so take the Forfeiture, as to seize it all into the Hands of Justice and destroy it: But he invested the whole Inheritance in his Son, making him the Heir of all. This he was meet for, as being God's Eternal Son by Nature, and hereof the Donation was free, gratuitous and absolute. And this Grant was confirmed unto him by his Unction with the Fulness of the Spirit. But,