referred to him; he is to come, to guide to truth, to receive, to hear, to speak, and to fhow things to come, actions which require a personal agent to perform them. The Holy Ghost, as has been already fhewn, is termed God in the fcriptures, but from the paffage before us it is evident that he is not the Son of whose stores he is to receive; nor the Father, the joint poffeffour with the Son of those things of which he is to take: But he is God; and there is but one God: The Holy Ghost therefore is with the Father and the Son one, God. See alfo N°: xxx, -p. 76, N°. lv. p. 108, N°. Ixxxiii. p. 132.

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"Why hath Satan filled thine heart to lie to the Holy Ghoft?" "Thou haft not lied unto men but unto God,” Acts v. 3, 4. Here alfo the Holy Ghoft is directly pronounced to be one with the Father and the Son, God.

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"The things of God, knoweth no man but the Spirit of God;"" which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wifdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghoft teacheth," 1 Cor. ii 11, 13. Here the Holy Ghoft is one and the same with the spirit of God; and in the 16th verfe he is called " the mind of Chrift;" he is therefore one in Godhead with the Father and the Son, from both of whom, one God, he equally proceeds.

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"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," 1 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 purchafed with his own blood?" Acts xx. 28. Being then redeemed by the blood of Jefus Chrift fhed for our ranfom, we have therefore become the temple of the Holy Ghoft. But

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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 fhall 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 Ghoft, 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 feem to the natural man,' Mr. Lindfey, 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 witneffed; "Let him become a fool, that he may be wife, for the wifdom of this world is foolishness with God," 1 Cor. iii. 18, 19; "Let him account of the apostles as ftewards of the mysteries of God," 1 Cor. iv. 1, "and not be taken as wife in his own craftinefs." "We are the house of Chrift, if we hold fait the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end,” Heb. iii. 6. "Know ye not your own felves that Jefus Chrift is in you, except ye be reprobates?" 2 Cor. xiii. 5. "Ye are the temple of the Holy Ghoft 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 fhall be my people," 2 Cor. vi. 16. Is this to be refifted?

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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 faw my work. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation,

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and faid, it is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways. Unto whom I fware in my wrath, that they fhould not enter into my 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.

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Our Saviour himself fays, "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 alfo bearing them witnefs," Heb. ii. 3, proceeds to preach the fufficiency of the one facrifice of Chrift's body once offered for fins; and the kingdom of heaven opened to all believers by his having overcome the fharpness of death; and "an entrance into the holieft by the blood of Jefus, by a new and living way which he hath confecrated for us," "whereof the Holy Ghoft is a witnefs to us," Heb. x. 15. "It is the Spirit that beareth witnefs, because the Spirit is truth." "If we receive the witnefs of men, the witnefs 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 witnefs in himfelf: 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," 1 Theff. v. 19; and, upon the whole, we fo frequently find the teftimony of Jesus

Chrift borne by God and by the Holy Ghoft, that we must conclude the Holy Ghoft, 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. Lindfey. I fhould hope however that he may, by this time, at least have begun to doubt the tenets which he has profeffed, and reflect on the very deftructive confequences of his errour, if he can be perfuaded to confider his doctrine to be fuch. To this purpose, and,

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As the laft argument which I fhall produce to the divinity of the Holy Ghost, and his unity with the Father and Son, I fhall add the declaration of our Saviour himself, who declared to the Scribes, who faid, "He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils cafteth he out devils;"" all fins fhall be forgiven to the fons of men, and blafphemies, wherewith foever they fhall blafpheme: but he that shall blafpheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation: because they said, he hath an unclean fpirit," Mark iii. 22 to 30. Here the context requires the following interpretation, Ye have faid that I have a devil; it fhall nevertheless be forgiven you but if ye shall hereafter ufe like blafphemy, ye shall never have forgiveness: I came not to bear record of myfelf, and therefore difpenfe with your unbelief; whereas, when the Holy Ghoft fhall in due time bear witnefs, that ultimate teftimony upon which the faith of mankind is to be required; when the whole of that evidence fhall 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 fuch a charge against the Son of man, declared

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declared by the Holy Ghoft to be God, ye refift the united Trinity, and fin against God, who fhall bear me witness; and whofe witnefs 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 fame event, greatly corroborates this manner of understanding the declaration of our Lord, "He that denieth me before men, fhall be denied before the angels of God. And whofoever fhall speak a word against the Son of man, it fhall 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 irrefiftible without fin, he goes on to fay, "Take ye no thought how or what thing ye fhall answer, or what ye shall say: for the Holy Ghost shall teach you in the fame hour what 'ye ought to fay," 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 fhall be forgiven; and also, that he who denieth him, fhall be denied alfo. Here are two contradictory affertions made, and confequently two distinct cir cumstances are to be understood for the fake of reconciling them to truth, and to fenfe, which easily refults, upon admitting that two diftinct times are intended; and that he who now denies me is pardonable; but that he who fhall hereafter deny me, fhall himself also be denied. Ye have not now the manifeft teftimony of God; but hereafter the Holy Ghost shall bear me witness and in the hour when the Holy Ghoft fhall teach my appointed witneffes what they ought to say: ye fhall not be forgiven if ye withhold belief." I defire my reader will refer this argument to the doctrine of my second chapter.

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