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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 edition. Excerpt: ...fulfilled or we cannot be justified. we shall prove afterward. 4. We are not hereon justified by the law or the works of it, in the only sense of that proposition in the Scripture, and to coin new senses or significations of it, is not safe. The meaning of it in the show more Scripture is, that only the doers of the law shall be justified; Rom ii. 13. and that he that doth the things of it shall live by them; chap. x. 5. namely, in his own person, by the way of personal duty which alone the law requires. But if we who have not fulfilled the law in the way of inherent personal obedience, are justified by the imputation of the righteousness of Christ unto us, then are we justified by Christ and not by the law. But it is said, that this will not relieve. For if his obedience be so imputed unto us, as that we are accounted by God in judgment to have done what Christ did, it is all one upon the matter, and we are as much justified by the law, as if we had in our own proper persons performed an unsinning obedience unto it. This I confess I cannot understand. The nature of this imputation is here represented as formerly, in such a way as we cannot acknowledge; from thence alone this inference is made, which yet in my judgment doth not follow thereon. For grant an imputation of the righteousness of another unto us, be it of what nature it will, all justification by the law and works of it in the sense of the Scripture is gone for ever. The admission of imputation takes off all power from the law to justify; for it can justify none, but upon a righteousness that is originally and inherently his own. The man that doth them shall live in them. If the righteousness that is imputed be the ground and foundation of our justification, and made ours by that... show lessTags
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Despite his other achievements, Owen is best famed for his writings. These cover the range of doctrinal, ecclesiastical and practical subjects. They are characterized by profundity, thoroughness and, consequestly, authority. Andrew Thomson said that Owen makes you feel when he has reached the end of his subject, that he has also exhausted it. Although many of his works were called forth by the particular needs of his own day they all have a uniform quality of timelessness. Owen's works were republished in full in the nineteenth century. Owen is surely the Prince of the Puritans. 'To master his works,' says Spurgeon,'is to be a profound theologian.'
The best book I have read on the Holy Spirit.
Volume 3: The Holy Spirit, EEBO. 31045
"Contains: Work of the Holy Spirit, His name, personality, operations, effects, work in regeneration, in the Old Testament, work on the mind, in sanctification, mortification of sin, and more."
Owen, John,The Holy Spirit (Puritan Paperback Series. Carlisle, PA: The Banner of Truth Trust), EEBO.
"Contains: Work of the Holy Spirit, His name, personality, operations, effects, work in regeneration, in the Old Testament, work on the mind, in sanctification, mortification of sin, and more."
Owen, John,The Holy Spirit (Puritan Paperback Series. Carlisle, PA: The Banner of Truth Trust), EEBO.
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Amongst the best known of the Puritans, John Owen (1616-1683) was a profound and thought-provoking pastor-theologian. His writings continue to be widely read and greatly appreciated to this day.
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- The Holy Spirit: His Gifts and Power
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- [This Edition] This publication of John Owen's work on the Holy Spirit, along with extracts from other writings on the work of the Spirit in prayer and on his operations as a Comforter, is based n an edition edited by George... (show all) Burder, who summarised his work in this way:
Large and numerous quotations from the Greek and Latin fathers are her omitted.
[Introduction] John Owen (1616-1683), the author of this great and justly famous exposition of the Person and Work of the Holy Spirit, lived in one of the most remarkable and significant periods of history in the English spe... (show all)aking world.
[Author's Preface] A general account of the nature and design of the ensuing discourse, being given in the first chapter of it, I shall not detain the reader by a long preface.
The Apostle Paul, in 1 Corinthians 12, directs their exercise of spiritual gifts; of which they had received an abundant measure, and concerning which they had consulted him. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[Introduction] Owen on the Holy Spirit is one of them.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)[Author's Preface] Wherefore, unless they come with better authority and give a better example of their own manner of teaching, we shall continue to make scripture phraseology our rule and pattern in the declaration of spiritual things, whether intelligible to them or not; and that for reasons so obvious, that they need not here be pleaded.
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And the misery hereof will be increased, when we consider, that the Spirit of God is not only departed from him, but is become his enemy, and fights against him, whereby he is devoted to irrecoverable ruin.
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