The Holy Spirit Versus a False Spirit

From the third division of Owen's On Communion with God, which addresses communion with the Holy Spirit, we're given this golden wisdom to help us discern the ministry of the Spirit of Christ versus a false spirit:

The Holy Ghost sheds abroad the love of God in our hearts . . . and thence fills them with joy, peace, and hope; quieting and refreshing the hearts of them in whom he dwells; giving them liberty and rest, confidence, and the boldness of children. This spirit whereof men now boast is a spirit of bondage, whose utmost work is to make men quake and tremble; casting them into an un-son-like frame of spirit, driving them up and down with horror and bondage, and drinking up their very natural spirits, and making their whole man wither away. There is scare any one thing that more evidently manifests the spirit whereby some are now acted not to be the Comforter promised by Christ, than this—that he is a spirit of bondage and slavery in them in whom he is, and a spirit of cruelty and reproach toward others; in a direct opposition to the Holy Ghost in believers, and all the ends and purposes for which, as a spirit of adoption and consolation, he is bestowed on them.

My response is simply this plea: O Lord, our Father, be pleased for Jesus' sake, to pour out more of your eternal love, through the pouring out of your Spirit into our hearts, as we look to the Christ in faith as our Pardon, Righteousness, Treasure, and King.  Amen.