The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 11

PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR In fact,

Owen

unsurpassed, and

is still

is

xi

much sought And yet Owen's

therefore

by good theologians, both lay and of this subject sumasterpiece does not seem to make a closer study the Arminians against Altho invincible as a champion perfluous. century. seventeenth the of Semi-Arminians of the latter part clerical.

after

and errors of the present time. his armor is too light to meet the doctrinal offer the thinking Christo For this reason the author has undertaken part of this great subject, in tian public an exposition of the second and the errors of the day. a form adapted to the claims of the age

Holy Spirit. has not treated the first part, the Person of the the Holy of Godhead The This is not a subject for controversy. of which principles the but denied, Spirit is indeed being confessed or that a divergent so are result confession or denial is the necessary they If impossible. is denier discussion between confessor and first of point the on lances cross ever enter the arena they should setis this when And Truth. of principles, and discuss the Source

He

might come to discuss a special subject like that of the them that deny Holy Spirit. But until then such a discussion with sacrilegious. the Revelation would almost be altho But with the IVork of the Holy Spirit it is different. For includes, it that all and Work, this professing Christians acknowledge which they and all that flows from it, yet the various groups into on this differences What ways. divergent represent it in very

tled they

divide

Kohlbruggians. point between Calvinists and Ethicals. Reformed. Supernatupractical the of representations and Perfectionists The recognized. be scarcely can Antinomians Mystics, and !

ralists,

impracticable and confusing to attack these should deviating opinions on subordinate points. These differences staked first not has that He systematically. never be discussed but sucnot can works Spirit Holy the which off the entire domain in to and brother of a winning the to it, of part measure any It

seemed

to

me

cessfully

the glory of God.

Hence leaving out polemics almost effort to represent the Work of the Holy tions, so that the

entirely. I

have made an

Spirit in its organic rela-

may be enabled to survey the entire dowho is not surprised at the ever-increasWork of the Holy Spirit in all the things that

reader

main. And ing dimensions of the

in surveying,

God and man? Even tho we honor the Father and believe on the Son, how little It even seems to us sometimes that do we live in the Holy Spirit

pertain to

!

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