In volume 3 of John Owen's works, a discourse on the Holy Spirit, Owen provides his method of proceeding in controversy (and here he is speaking particularly of controversy concerning the Spirit's person and operations). He speaks of those who "unduly rage against persons who have imbibed [imaginations and errors], falling upon them with violence and fury . . . . The course . . . of opposing errors and false spirits by praying, preaching, and writing is despised by them. . ." (37).
But, Owen asserts, "the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ" (2 Cor. 10:4-5, KJV). So the course "particularly suited to obviate the evil mentioned is to give a full, plain, evident declaration from Scripture of the nature and operations of the Holy Spirit of God" (37).
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