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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
OF Spiritual Gifts. PART II. › Chapter 1: Spiritual Gifts, their Names and Significations.
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.
(§ 2.) THESE Gifts are not saving sanctifying Graces; those were not so in themselves which made the most glorious and astonishing appearance in the World, and which were most eminently useful in the Foundation of the Church, and propagation of the Gospel. Such as were those that were Extraordinary and Miraculous. There is something of the Divine Nature in the least Grace, that is not in the most glorious Gift which is only so. It will therefore be part of our work, to show wherein the Essential Difference between these Gifts and sanctifying Graces doth consist; as also what is their Nature and Use must be enquired into. For although they are not Grace, yet they are that without which the Church cannot subsist in the World, nor can Believers be useful unto one another, and the rest of Mankind, unto the Glory of Christ, as they ought to be. They are the powers of the World to come; those effectual Operations of the power of Christ, whereby his Kingdom was Erected and is preserved.
(§ 2.) THESE Gifts are not saving sanctifying Graces; those were not so in themselves which made the most glorious and astonishing appearance in the World, and which were most eminently useful in the Foundation of the Church, and propagation of the Gospel. Such as were those that were Extraordinary and Miraculous. There is something of the Divine Nature in the least Grace, that is not in the most glorious Gift which is only so. It will therefore be part of our work, to shew wherein the Essential Difference between these Gifts and sanctifying Graces doth consist; as also what is their Nature and Use must be enquired into. For although they are not Grace, yet they are that without which the Church cannot subsist in the World, nor can Believers be useful unto one another, and the rest of Mankind, unto the Glory of Christ, as they ought to be. They are the powers of the World to come; those effectual Operations of the power of Christ, whereby his Kingdom was Erected and is preserved.
(§ 3.) AND hereby is the Church state under the New Testament differenced from that under the Old. There is indeed a great Difference between ⟨p. 107⟩