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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 4: Extraordinary Spiritual Gifts. 1 Cor. 12. v. 8, 9, 10, 11.
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.
(§ 14.) THE Gifts of Healing, are nextly mentioned. [Greek or Hebrew]. To another the Gifts of Healings by the same Spiris. So they are again expressed Ver. 28. in the Plural Number, because of their Free Communication unto many Persons. These Healings respected those that were sick, in ⟨p. 178⟩their sudden and miraculous Recovery from long or deadly Distempers, by the Imposition of Hands in the Name of the Lord Jesus. And as many of the mighty Works of Christ himself, for the Reasons that shall be mentioned, consisted in these Healings, so it was one of the first things which he gave in Commission to his Apostles, and furnished them with Power for, whilst they attended on him in his personal Ministry, Matth. 10. 1. So also did he do to the Seventy, making it the principal Sign of the Approach of the Kingdom of God, Luke 10. 9. And the same Power and Virtue he promiseth to Believers, namely, that they should lay Hands on the Sick and recover them after his Ascension. Of the Accomplishment of this Promise, and the Exercise of this Power, the Story of the Acts of the Apostles giveth us many Instances, Acts 5. 15. Chap. 3. 7. Chap. 9. 33, 34. And two things are observed singular in the Exercise of this Gift. As First, That many were cured by the Shadow of Peter as he passed by, Acts 5. 15. And again, many were so by Handkerchiefs and Aprons carried from the Body of Paul, Chap. 19. 12. And the Reason of these extraordinary Operations in extraordinary Cases, seems to have been the Encouragement of that great Faith which was then stirred up in them that beheld those miraculous Operations, which was of singular Advantage unto the Propagation of the Gospel; as the Magical Superstition of the Roman Church sundry ways endeavouring to imitate these inimitable Actings of Sovereign Divine Power, hath been a Dishonour to Christian Religion.
(§ 14.) THE Gifts of Healing, are nextly mentioned. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. To another the Gifts of Healings by the same Spiris. So they are again expressed Ver. 28. in the Plural Number, because of their Free Communication unto many Persons. These Healings respected those that were sick, in