Excerpt from The Works of John Owen, D.D, Vol. 4: Containing a Discourse of the Work of the Holy Spirit in Prayer; Two Discourses Concerning the Holy Spirit and His Work; Of the Divine Original of the Scriptures of the Integrity and Purity of the Hebrew and Greek d104 of the Scriptures Moreover, in such cases as this, men are apt to run into excesses In things and ways, which they judge ex pedient, either to countenance their own Opinions, or to depress and decry those of them from whom they differ. And no instances can be given in this kind Of greater extravagances, than in that under consideration. For hence it_is, that some do ascribe the original of free prayer amongst us, by the assistance Of the Spirit of God, unto an invention of the Jesuits; which is no doubt, to make them the authors Of the Bible. And others do avow that all forms of prayer used amongst us in public worship, are mere traductions from the Roman breviaries and missal. But these things will be afterward spoken unto. They are here mentioned only to evince the use Of a sedate inquiry into the truth or the mind of God in this matter, which is the design of the ensuing Discourse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.