ingenerating

He doth this radically, by begetting, creating, ingenerating them in the hearts of believers, in the first infusion of the new, spiritual, vital principle with which they are endued when they are born of him; as also by acting, exciting, and stirring them up in every duty of the worship of God that they are called unto; so enabling them to act according to the mind of God.

The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

Spirit ingenerating faith in us, and that work to be necessary to our believing the Scripture in a due manner.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

"Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God," Rom.x. 17; that is, it is hearing the word of God which is the ordinary means of ingenerating faith in the souls of men.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

And this is the work of the Holy Ghost, who not only sanctifieth us, but, by ingenerating faith in us, and the application of the promise unto us, is the cause and means of our justification also, 1 Cor. vi.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

Fourthly, The last thing, whereby this work of conversion to God is completed, as to the outward means of it, which is the ingenerating and acting of faith in God by Jesus Christ, remains alone to be considered, wherein all possible brevity and plainness shall be consulted; and I shall comprise what I have to offer on this head in the ensuing observations: --

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

Neither did our Lord Jesus Christ nor his apostles ever make use of such arguments or motives for the ingenerating of faith in the minds of men, nor have they given directions for the use of any such arguments to this end and purpose.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

Hence they were not of old insisted on for the ingenerating of faith in them to whom the word was preached, nor ordinarily are so to this day by any who understand what is their work and duty.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

And it is the instrument of it, because God maketh use of it alone as an external means for the communicating of it unto us, or the ingenerating of it in us.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

And as the nature of evangelical holiness consists herein, -- namely, in a universal conformity unto him as he is the image of the invisible God, -- so the proposal of his example unto us is an effectual means of ingenerating and increasing it in us.

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

God, and the ingenerating of faith in them; yes, in some cases, the use of such means is decried as unprofitable, and the sole authority of

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967