: fered concerning the sufficiency of any one assertion, for the truth of which God himself is responsible. "He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest." "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that Holy Thing which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God," Luke i. 31, 35. That which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost," Matth. i. 20. That which is conceived of the Holy Ghost, is thefefore called the Son of God; the Holy Ghost therefore, of whom the Son of God is conceived, is one with the Father and the Son, "the Highest." " I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever, even the Spirit of Truth." "I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you." "If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him," John xiv. 16, 17, 18, 23. Here the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, one God, are, or is, the Comforter, the witness to the truth, which shall come and abide, or make abode with him who loveth the Son, and keepeth his words. The identity of the Godhead of the Holy Spirit with that of the Father, and of the Son, is here expressly declared. "Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghost?" "thou hast not lied unto men but unto God," Acts v. 3, 4. Here also the Holy Ghost is directly pronounced to be one, with the Father and the Son, God. : "The things of God, knoweth no man but the Spirit of God;" "which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth," I Cor. ii. 11, 13. Here the Holy Ghost is one and the same with the Spirit of God; and in the 16th verse he is called " the mind of Christ;" he is therefore one in Godhead with the Fa ther and the Son, from both of whom, one God, he equally proceeds. ! : "What, know ye not that ye are the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price," I Cor. vi. 19. What now is the price paid for this purchase wherewith we are bought? are we not "the church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood?" Acts xx. 28. Being then redeemed by the blood of Jefus Christ shed for our ransom, we have therefore become the temple of the Holy Ghost. But "know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are," 1 Cor. iii. 16, 17. The Father is God, and the Son is "God, who purchased us with his own blood;" and the Holy Ghost, whose temple we are, is here declared to be God. But there is but one God; the Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft are therefore that one God, that Trinity in Unity which is to be worshipped. This may seem to the natural man', Mr. Lindsey, to be hay and Stubble; but let him lay afide the vanity of thinking himself in the least degree a judge of spiritual things, and believe that which God has witnessed; " Let him become a fool, that he may be wife, for the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God," 1 Cor. iii. 18, 19; "Let him account of the apostles as stewards of the mysteries of God," I Cor. iv. 1. "and not be taken as wife in his own craftiness." "We are the the house of Chrift, if we hold faft the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end," Heb. iii. 6. " Know ye not your ownselves that Jesus Christ in you, except ye be reprobates?" 2 Cor. xiii. 5. " Ye are the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you." " Ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath faid, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people," 2 Cor, vi, 16. Is this to be resisted? That it was God who spoke by the prophets, is not denied. But by the mouth of the prophet David God has faid, "To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, it is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways. Unto whom I sware in my wrath, that they should not enter into my re reft," Pf. xcv. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Of him who has thus fworn, and who was thus provoked for forty years in the wilderness, even that God who led the children of Ifrael out of the land of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage, and said, "I am the Lord thy God," it is thus declared by St. Paul, "the Holy Ghost faith, to-day if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, &c." Heb. iii. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Our Saviour himself says, "The spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me," John xv. 26; and accordingly St. Paul having declared to the Hebrews, that they who had heard the Lord confirmed his great falvation unto us, "God also bearing them witness," Heb. ii. 3. proceeds to preach the fufficiency of the one facrifice of Christ's body once offered for fins, and the kingdom of heaven opened Dd2 opened to all believers by his having overcome the Sharpness of death, and "an entrance into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way which he hath confecrated for us," "whereof the Holy Ghost is a witness to us," Heb. x. 15. "It is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the spirit is truth." " If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God, which he hath teftified of his Son. He that believeth on the Son of God, hath the witness in himself: he that believeth not God, hath made him a liar, because he believeth not the record that God gave of his Son," I John v. 9, 10. These words amply explain the meaning of St. Paul's direction to the Theffalonians, "Quench not the Spirit," I Theff. v. 19; and, upon the whole, we so frequently find the testimony of Jesus Christ borne by God and by the Holy Ghost, that we must conclude the Holy Ghost, who is a witness unto us," to be one with the Father and with the Son, God, who hath given the record of his Son, "that witness who is in him that believeth on the Son of God." This may perhaps afford more provender for Mr. Lindsey. I should hope however that he may, by this time at least, have begun to doubt the tenets which he has profefsed, and reflect on the very destructive consequences of his errour, if he can be perfuaded to confider his doctrine to be such. To this purpose, and as the last argument which I shall produce to the divinity of the Holy Ghost, and his unity with the Father and Son, I shall add the declaration of our Saviour himself, who declared to the Scribes, who said, "He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils;" "all sins shall be forgiven to the sons of men, and blafphemies, wherewith foever they shall blafpheme: but he that shall blafpheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of ( of eternal damnation: because they said, he hath an unclean spirit," Mark iii. 22 to 30. Here the context requires the following interpretation, Ye have said that I have a devil; it shall nevertheless be forgiven you: but if ye shall hereafter use like blafphemy, ye shall never have forgiveness; I came not to bear record of myfelf, and therefore dispense with your unbelief; whereas, when the Holy Ghost shall in due time bear witness, that ultimate testimony upon which the faith of mankind is to be required; when the whole of that evidence shall be afforded to the world, upon which God has thought right to demand the faith of men, and to which he will not add; then, if ye blafpheme, or lay such a charge against the Son of man, declared by the Holy Ghost to be God, ye resist the united Trinity, and sin against God, who shall bear me witness; and whose witness is greater than that of man, which as yet ye are pardonable for conceiving me only to be.' The manner in which St, Luke has related the same event, greatly corroborates this manner of understanding the declaration of our Lord, "He that denieth me before men, shall be depied before the angels of God. And whosoever shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blafphemeth against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven;" for our Saviour is in context with the declaration appointing the apostles to be witnesses unto him; and for the purpose of rendering them competent and irresistible without fin, he goes on to say, "Take ye no thought how or what thing ye shall answer, or what ye shall fay: for the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour what ye ought to say," Luke xii. 9, 10, 11, 12. On this place it is to be remarked, that our Lord has declared of him who shall speak against the Son of man, that he shall be forgiven; and also, that he who denieth him, |