The Work of the Spirit
by John Owen
This volume by the greatest of the Puritan theologians is organized as follows:
The Reason of Faith
Prefatory Note
Preface
Chapter 1. The Subject Stated — Preliminary Remarks
Chapter 2. What It Is Infallibly to Believe the Scripture to Be the Word of God, Affirmed
Chapter 3. Sundry Convincing External Arguments for Divine Revelation
Chapter 4. Moral Certainty, the Result of External Arguments, Insufficient
Chapter 5. Divine Revelation Itself the Only Foundation and Reason of Faith
Chapter 6. The Nature of Divine Revelations — Their Self-Evidencing Power Considered, Particularly That of the Scriptures as the Word of God
Chapter 7. Inferences From the Whole — Some Objections Answered
Appendix
The Causes, Ways, and Means of Understanding the Mind of God as Revealed in His Word
Prefatory Note
Analysis
Preface
Chapter 1.
Chapter 2.
Chapter 3.
Chapter 4.
Chapter 5.
Chapter 6.
Chapter 7.
Chapter 8.
Chapter 9.
The Work of the Holy Spirit in Prayer
Prefatory Note
Analysis
Preface to the Reader
Chapter 1. The Use of Prayer, and the Work of the Holy Spirit Therein
Chapter 2. Zechariah 12:10 Opened and Vindicated
Chapter 3. Galatians 4:6 Opened and Vindicated
Chapter 4. The Nature of Prayer — Romans 8:26 Opened and Vindicated
Chapter 5. The Work of the Holy Spirit as to the Matter of Prayer
Chapter 6. The Due Manner of Prayer, Wherein It Doth Consist
Chapter 7. The Nature of Prayer in General, With Respect Unto Forms of Prayer and Vocal Prayer — Ephesians 6:18 Opened and Vindicated
Chapter 8. The Duty of External Prayer by Virtue of a Spiritual Gift Explained and Vindicated
Chapter 9. Duties Inferred From the Preceding Discourse
Chapter 10. Of Mental Prayer as Pretended Unto by Some in the Church of Rome
Chapter 11. Prescribed Forms of Prayer Examined
The Spirit as a Comforter
Prefatory Note
Analysis
Preface
Chapter 1. The Holy Ghost the Comforter of the Church by Way of Office — How He Is the Church’s Advocate — John 14:16; 1 John 2:1, 2; John 16:8-11 Opened
Chapter 2. General Adjuncts or Properties of the Office of a Comforter, as Exercised by the Holy Spirit
Chapter 3. Unto Whom the Holy Spirit Is Promised and Given as a Comforter, or the Object of His
Chapter 4. Inhabitation of the Spirit the First Thing Promised
Chapter 5. Particular Actings of the Holy Spirit as a Comforter — How He Is an Unction
Chapter 6. The Spirit a Seal, and How
Chapter 7. The Spirit an Earnest, and How
A Discourse of Spiritual Gifts
Analysis
Chapter 1. Spiritual Gifts, Their Names and Signification
Chapter 2. Differences Between Spiritual Gifts and Saving Grace
Chapter 4. Extraordinary Spiritual Gifts, 1 Corinthians 12:4-11
Chapter 5. The Original, Duration, Use, and End, of Extraordinary Spiritual Gifts
Chapter 6. Of Ordinary Gifts of the Spirit — The Grant, Institution, Use, Benefit, End, and Continuance of the Ministry
Chapter 7. Of Spiritual Gifts Enabling the Ministry to the Exercise and Discharge of Their Trust and Office
Chapter 8. Of the Gifts of the Spirit With Respect Unto Doctrine, Worship, and Rule — How Attained and Improved
The Reason of Faith
Prefatory Note
Preface
Chapter 1. The Subject Stated — Preliminary Remarks
Chapter 2. What It Is Infallibly to Believe the Scripture to Be the Word of God, Affirmed
Chapter 3. Sundry Convincing External Arguments for Divine Revelation
Chapter 4. Moral Certainty, the Result of External Arguments, Insufficient
Chapter 5. Divine Revelation Itself the Only Foundation and Reason of Faith
Chapter 6. The Nature of Divine Revelations — Their Self-Evidencing Power Considered, Particularly That of the Scriptures as the Word of God
Chapter 7. Inferences From the Whole — Some Objections Answered
Appendix
The Causes, Ways, and Means of Understanding the Mind of God as Revealed in His Word
Prefatory Note
Analysis
Preface
Chapter 1.
Chapter 2.
Chapter 3.
Chapter 4.
Chapter 5.
Chapter 6.
Chapter 7.
Chapter 8.
Chapter 9.
The Work of the Holy Spirit in Prayer
Prefatory Note
Analysis
Preface to the Reader
Chapter 1. The Use of Prayer, and the Work of the Holy Spirit Therein
Chapter 2. Zechariah 12:10 Opened and Vindicated
Chapter 3. Galatians 4:6 Opened and Vindicated
Chapter 4. The Nature of Prayer — Romans 8:26 Opened and Vindicated
Chapter 5. The Work of the Holy Spirit as to the Matter of Prayer
Chapter 6. The Due Manner of Prayer, Wherein It Doth Consist
Chapter 7. The Nature of Prayer in General, With Respect Unto Forms of Prayer and Vocal Prayer — Ephesians 6:18 Opened and Vindicated
Chapter 8. The Duty of External Prayer by Virtue of a Spiritual Gift Explained and Vindicated
Chapter 9. Duties Inferred From the Preceding Discourse
Chapter 10. Of Mental Prayer as Pretended Unto by Some in the Church of Rome
Chapter 11. Prescribed Forms of Prayer Examined
The Spirit as a Comforter
Prefatory Note
Analysis
Preface
Chapter 1. The Holy Ghost the Comforter of the Church by Way of Office — How He Is the Church’s Advocate — John 14:16; 1 John 2:1, 2; John 16:8-11 Opened
Chapter 2. General Adjuncts or Properties of the Office of a Comforter, as Exercised by the Holy Spirit
Chapter 3. Unto Whom the Holy Spirit Is Promised and Given as a Comforter, or the Object of His
Chapter 4. Inhabitation of the Spirit the First Thing Promised
Chapter 5. Particular Actings of the Holy Spirit as a Comforter — How He Is an Unction
Chapter 6. The Spirit a Seal, and How
Chapter 7. The Spirit an Earnest, and How
A Discourse of Spiritual Gifts
Analysis
Chapter 1. Spiritual Gifts, Their Names and Signification
Chapter 2. Differences Between Spiritual Gifts and Saving Grace
Chapter 4. Extraordinary Spiritual Gifts, 1 Corinthians 12:4-11
Chapter 5. The Original, Duration, Use, and End, of Extraordinary Spiritual Gifts
Chapter 6. Of Ordinary Gifts of the Spirit — The Grant, Institution, Use, Benefit, End, and Continuance of the Ministry
Chapter 7. Of Spiritual Gifts Enabling the Ministry to the Exercise and Discharge of Their Trust and Office
Chapter 8. Of the Gifts of the Spirit With Respect Unto Doctrine, Worship, and Rule — How Attained and Improved
Library Binding, 520 pages
Published October 1st 1991 by Banner of Truth
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John Owen (1616 - 1683)
Read freely text sermons and articles by the speaker John Owen in text and pdf format.John Owen, called the “prince of the English divines,” “the leading figure among the Congregationalist divines,” “a genius with learning second only to Calvin’s,” and “indisputably the leading proponent of high Calvinism in England in the late seventeenth century,” was born in Stadham (Stadhampton), near Oxford. He was the second son of Henry Owen, the local Puritan vicar. Owen showed godly and scholarly tendencies at an early age. He entered Queen’s College, Oxford, at the age of twelve and studied the classics, mathematics, philosophy, theology, Hebrew, and rabbinical writings. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1632 and a Master of Arts degree in 1635. Throughout his teen years, young Owen studied eighteen to twenty hours per day.Pressured to accept Archbishop Laud’s new statutes, Owen left Oxford in 1637. He became a private chaplain and tutor, first for Sir William Dormer of Ascot, then for John Lord Lovelace at Hurley, Berkshire. He worked for Lovelace until 1643. Those years of chaplaincy afforded him much time for study, which God richly blessed. At the age of twenty-six, Owen began a forty-one year writing span that produced more than eighty works. Many of those would become classics and be greatly used by God.
Owen was by common consent the weightiest Puritan theologian, and many would bracket him with Jonathan Edwards as one of the greatest Reformed theologians of all time.
Born in 1616, he entered Queen's College, Oxford, at the age of twelve and secured his M.A. in 1635, when he was nineteen. In his early twenties, conviction of sin threw him into such turmoil that for three months he could scarcely utter a coherent word on anything; but slowly he learned to trust Christ, and so found peace.
In 1637 he became a pastor; in the 1640s he was chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, and in 1651 he was made Dean of Christ Church, Oxford's largest college. In 1652 he was given the additional post of Vice-Chancellor of the University, which he then reorganized with conspicuous success. After 1660 he led the Independents through the bitter years of persecution till his death in 1683.
John Owen was born of Puritan parents at Stadham in Oxfordshire in 1616. At Oxford University, which he entered in 1628 at twelve years of age, John pored over books so much that he undermined his health by sleeping only four hours a night. In old age he deeply regretted this misuse of his body, and said he would give up all the additional learning it brought him if only he might have his health back. Naturally, he studied the classics of the western world, but also Hebrew, the literature of the Jewish rabbis, mathematics and philosophy. His beliefs at that time were Presbyterian, however, his ambition, although fixed on the church, was worldly.
John was driven from Oxford in 1637 when Archbishop Laud issued rules that many of England's more democratically-minded or "low" church ministers could not accept. After this, John was in deep depression. He struggled to resolve religious issues to his satisfaction. While in this state, he heard a sermon on the text "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" which fired him with new decisiveness.
After that, John wrote a rebuke of Arminianism (a mild form of Calvinism which teaches that man has some say in his own salvation or damnation although God is still sovereign). Ordained shortly before his expulsion from Oxford, he was given work at Fordham in Essex. After that he rose steadily in public affairs. Before all was over, he would become one of the top administrators of the university which expelled him and he even sat in Parliament.
He became a Congregationalist (Puritan) and took Parliament's side in the English Civil Wars. Oliver Cromwell employed him in positions of influence and trust, but John would not go along when Cromwell became "Protector." Nonetheless, many of Parliament's leaders attended John's church.
John's reputation was so great that he was offered many churches. One was in Boston, Massachusetts. John turned that down, but he once scolded the Puritans of New England for persecuting people who disagreed with them.
He also engaged in controversy with such contemporaries as Richard Baxter and Jeremy Taylor. Through it all, John focused his teaching on the person of Christ. "If Christ had not died," he said, "sin had never died in any sinner unto eternity." In another place he noted that "Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but he died for all God's elect, that they should believe."
John wrote many books including a masterpiece on the Holy Spirit. Kidney stones and asthma tormented him in his last years. But he died peacefully in the end, eyes and hands lifted up as if in prayer.
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