1791 JOHN OWEN. Most Significant Puritan Work on the Holy Spirit, Gifts of the Spirit Ever Written.

J. I. Packer said the present work on the Person and Work of the Spirit, including the miraculous gifts [charismata] was the most substantial Puritan contribution to the theology of the Spirit of the puritan era. And, he goes on, if we are to look for guidance from the Puritans as to what they would have thought of Pentecostal Christianity and how it would have been assessed, the present is the only resource of any significance. 

A very interesting treatment of the charismata, to which Owen leaves the door open in terms of their continuation or resurgence. 

Most later editions, including the Nichols series and all modern iterations, remove the majority of this content. 

Also includes a very good life of John Owen at the beginning of the work. 

Owen, John. Pneumatologia: Or, A Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit. Wherein an Account is Given of His Name, Nature, Personality, Dispensation, Operations, and Effects. His Whole Works in the Old and New Creation is Explained; the Doctrine Concerning it Vindicated from Oppositions and Reproaches. The Nature Also and Necessity of Gospel Holiness; the Difference between Grace and Morality, or a Spiritual Life unto God in Evangelical Obeidnece, and a Course of Moral Virtues, are Stated and Declared. In Two Volumes. Glasgow. W. & E Miller. 1791. 518 + 460pp.

Good in probably early 19th century half leather, rubbed as shown, but attractive. Hinge just starting. Modern inscription [awkward] on blank ffep and pastedown. Some very discrete textual underlinings.