The Works of John Owen, D.D. (V. 3)

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE HOLY SPIRIT. BOOK I. CHAPTER I. GENERAL PRINCIPLES CONCERNING THE HOLT SPIRIT AND HIS WORK. 1 Cor. xii. 1 opened? nfiycTx, spiritual gifts?Their grant unto, use and abuse in, that church?Jesus, how called "anathema"?Impiety of the Jews?How called " Lord"?The foundation of church order and worship?In what seme we are enabled by the Spirit to call Jesus " Lord "?The Holy Spirit the author of all gifts?why called "God," and "The Lord"?General distribution of spiritual gifts?Proper end of their communication?Nine sorts of gifts?Abuse of them in the church?Their tendency unto peace and order?General design of the ensuing discourse concerning the Spirit and his dispensation?Importance of the doctrine concerning the Spirit of God and his operations? Reasons hereof? Promise of the Spirit to supply the absence of Christ, as to his human nature?Concernment thereof?Work of the Spirit in the ministration of the gospel?All saving good communicated unto us and wrought in us by him?Sin against the Holy Ghost irremissible?False pretences unto the Spirit dangerous?Pretences unto the spirit of prophecy under the Old Testament?Two sorts of false prophets: the first; the second sort?Pretenders under the New Testament?The rule for the trial of such pretenders, 1 John iv. 1-3?Rules to this purpose under the Old and New Testaments compared?A false spirit, set up against the Spirit of God, examined?False and noxious opinions concerning the Spirit, and how to be obviated?Reproaches of the Spirit and his work?Principles and occasions of the apostasy of churches under the law and gospel?Dispensation of the Spirit not confined to the first ages of the church?The great necessity of a diligent inquiry into the things taught concerning the Spirit of God and his work. The ap...

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