The Spirit and the Church
by John Owen
John Owen shows that everything the church needs to function without Christ's bodily presence, from certainty that Scripture is God's word to the ability to pray and the gifts to build up the body, flows from the ongoing work of the Holy Spirit. Abridged from Owen's later treatises on the Spirit, it moves from doctrine to devotion.
Based on Abridged from John Owen's treatises on the Holy Spirit, Works of John Owen, Vol. 4
Puritan quotes
Quotes by John Owen
“It is the work of the Holy Spirit to enable us to believe the Scripture to be the word of God, and infallibly to evidence it unto our minds.”
“His work it is to support, cherish, relieve, and comfort the church, in all trials and distresses.”
“Be killing sin or it will be killing you.”
“He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.”
“Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.”
“Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.”
“Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.”
“A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.”
“To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead, sin is alive, and will live.”
“All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.”
