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
From the book
In John Owen's own words
“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.”
