Owen on “Absolutes”
Without “absolutes” revealed from without by God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas about manners, justice, and right and wrong, issuing from a multitude of self-opinionated thinkers. We could never know who God is, how He is to be worshiped, or wherein true happiness lies…
Intellects which are willing to drift backwards and forwards on the ebb and flow of the tides of changing theories will, at the end, be driven by the winds of uncertainty into the quicksands of atheism.
- John Owen, Biblical Theology: The History of Theology from Adam to Christ (p. xl)
Unintentional Puritan Humor
John Owen, in the book I’m reading right now, says this:
The very title page of this book will demonstrate, without further explanation from me, the intention of the work I have undertaken.
Gee, can you really tell that much from the title page of a book?
Yes. Yes you can.
OT Saints: Indwelt by the Spirit?
…there are three reasons why we can affirm the Spirit’s indwelling of OT saints: regeneration, sanctification, and empowerment.
via OT Saints: Indwelt by the Spirit?.
I was actually just thinking about this the other night, while reading through Ezekiel 2-3. I’d heard the argument before that Old Testament saints were NOT indwelt by the Spirit ever, that that Spirit merely “came upon” them.
The text, however, shows otherwise:
Ezekiel 2:22 And as he spoke to me, the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and I heard him speaking to me. (ESV)
Ezekiel 3:2424 But the Spirit entered into me and set me on my feet, and he spoke with me and said to me, “Go, shut yourself within your house. (ESV)
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