Holy Spirit Produces Real Effects

In interaction with John Owen's Communion with God: "The Holy Spirit produces consolation, peace, joy, and hope in believers. The Holy Spirit produces real effects in the experience of believers, experience revolving around Christ as revealed in Scripture. Thus Owen rejected both the rationalists who dismissed the experiential work of the Spirit and the fanatics whose "spirit" disregarded the Word and Christ" (Joel R. Beeke & Mark Jones, A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life, 112).