The work of the Holy Spirit - pagina 9

PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR.

Special treatises on the Person of the Holy Spirit are comparaand systematic treatment of His IVorA is still more un-

tively few,

common. In dogmatics, it is true, this subject is introduced, developed, and explained, but special treatment is exceptional. As much as there is written on Christ, so little is there written on the Holy Spirit. The work of John Owen on this subject is In fact, John Owen most widely known and still unsurpassed. wrote three works on the Holy Spirit, published in 1674, 1682, and He was naturally a prolific writer and theologian. Born 1693. in 1616, he died at the good old age of seventy-five years, in 1691. From 1642, when he published his first book, he continued writing books until his death. In 1826 Richard Baynes reissued the works of John Owen, D.D., edited by Thomas Russell, A.M., with memoirs of his life and wriThis edition is still in the market, and offers a treasury of sound and thorough theology. Besides Owen's works I mention the following: tings (twenty-one volumes).

David Rungius, " Proof of the Eternity and Eternal Godhead of the Holy Spirit," Wittenberg, 1599. Seb. Nieman, " On the Holy Spirit." Jena, 1655. Joannes Ernest Gerhard, " On the Person of the Holy Spirit," Jena, 1660.

Theod. Hackspann, G. Dorsche,

J.

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"

On

Dissertation on the

Holy

Spirit," Jena, 1655.

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Spirit,"

Konings-

berg, 1690. Fr. 1711.

Deutsch,

"

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the Personality of the Holy Spirit," Leipsic,

On

the Adoration and

Wor-

On the Godhead of the Holy Spirit," Jena,

1727.

Gottfr. Olearius (John F. Burgius),

"

ship of the Holy Spirit," Jena, 1727. J.

F. Buddeuss,

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