Gifts and Workings of the Spirit
Modern Spiritual Gifts as Analogous to Apostolic Gifts: Affirming Extraordinary Works of the Spirit within Cessationist Theology
Poythress wants to maintain that modern gifts of the Spirit are analogous to but not identical with the gifts exercised by the apostles. He wants to maintain an exclusive divine authority of the biblical canon. These gifts are still useful to the church; therefore, he seeks a middle way between blanket approval and rejection of modern charismatic gifts.
John Owen on Spiritual Gifts
Gifts of the Spirit are those without which the church cannot subsist in the world, nor believers be useful to one another and the rest of mankind. Gifts of the Spirit give the church its inward organic life and its outward visible form. This article is an expansion of this definition by John Owen.