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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. › THE APPLICATION OF THE Foregoing Discourse.
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.
I. WE have a negative Precept to this purpose, Ephes. 4. 30. [Greek or Hebrew], Grieve not the Holy Spirit. Consider who he is, what he hath done for you, how great your Concern is in his continuance with you; and withal, that he is a Free, infinitely Wise and Holy Agent in all that He doth, who came freely unto you, and can withdraw from you, and grieve him not. It is the Person of the Holy Spirit that is intended in the Words, as appears, (1) From the manner of the Expression, [Greek or Hebrew], that Holy Spirit. (2) By the Work assigned unto Him; for by him we are Sealed unto the Day of Redemption; Him we are not to grieve. The Expression seems to be borrowed from Isa. 63. 10. where mention is made of the Sin and Evil here prohibited, [Greek or Hebrew], But they rebelled, and vexed his Holy Spirit. [Greek or Hebrew] is to trouble and to grieve, and it is used when it is done unto a great Degree. The LXX render it here by [Greek or Hebrew], which is so to grieve, as also to irritate and provoke to Anger and Indignation, because it hath respect unto the Rebellions of the People in the Wilderness, which our Apostle expresseth by [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew], Words of the same Signification. To Vex therefore is the heightening of Grieving by a Provocation unto Anger and Indignation; which Sense is suited to the place and matter treated of, though the Word signify no more but to grieve, and so it is rendered by [Greek or Hebrew], Gen. 45. 5. 1 King. 19. 2.
I. WE have a negative Precept to this purpose, Ephes. 4. 30. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Grieve not the Holy Spirit. Consider who he is, what he hath done for you, how great your Concern is in his continuance with you; and withall, that he is a Free, infinitely Wise and Holy Agent in all that He doth, who came freely unto you, and can withdraw from you, and grieve him not. It is the Person of the Holy Spirit that is intended in the Words, as appears, (1) From the manner of the Expression, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, that Holy Spirit. (2) By the Work assigned unto Him; for by him we are Sealed unto the Day of Redemption; Him we are not to grieve. The Expression seems to be borrowed from