God. The Spirit of Jehovah is Jehovah the Spirit; the Spirit of God is God the Spirit. And this rule may be seen in the Epistle to the Corinthians. "Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. Now the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty," 2 Cor. iii. 16, 17. The Spirit of the Lord is the Lord the Spirit. Hence we may safely conclude that the Holy Ghost is Jehovah, God, and Lord.

And, to shew the divine equality of the adorable persons in the Godhead, each person at times is named or placed first. Sometimes Christ is named first: "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen." 2 Cor. xiii. 14. Sometimes the Holy Spirit stands first: 66 That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding; to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of

the Father, and of Christ," Col. ii. 2. Sometimes God the Father stands first: "For there are three that bear record in heaven; the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one," 1 John v. 7. Now, as this last order is not always attended to, it shews that one is not before or after another; and that one is not greater or less than the other. Again

"Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit; and there are diversities of administrations, but the same Lord; and there are diversities of operations, but the same God, which worketh all in all," 1 Cor. xii. 4—6. Here the Holy Ghost takes the name of Spirit, Lord, and God; to 1 himself; and therefore he must be the Spirit, Lord, and God. Sometimes the Holy Ghost is prayed to as God. "But the Lord is faithful who shall establish you, and keep you from evil. And we have confidence in the Lord touching you, that ye both do and will do the things which we command you. And the Lord direct your hearts into the

love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ," 2 Thess. iii. 3-5. The Lord, who is faithful, and who establishes the churches, and keeps them from evil, and in whom Paul places his confidence, is the Holy Ghost; and he is prayed to, that he may direct the saints' hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ. The Holy Spirit is prayed to as a divine person, to direct souls into the love of God, who is another person, and into the patient waiting for Christ, which is another and a distinct person from the former two.

That the Holy Ghost is truly and essentially God, appears from the scriptures, which ascribe divine attributes and perfections to him; such as eternity: "Through the eternal Spirit he offered himself to God," Heb. ix. 14. Omniscience also-"The Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God; for what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the spirit of God," 1 Cor. ii. 10, 11. Omnipotence is ascribed

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to him. "The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee," Luke i. 35. He is called "the Spirit of counsel and might," Isaiah xv. 2. And "the Spirit of power and of a sound mind," 2 Tim. i. 7. How can he be called the Spirit of power, the Spirit of might, and the power of the Highest if he be not the Almighty God? Nothing can be the power of the Highest, but Omnipotence itself; and whatever is omnipotent is God.

Omnipresence. "Whither shall I go from thy Spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there; if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me," Psalm cxxxix. 7-10. Here is the Holy Spirit, and his presence, and his hand, in all places; therefore he must be omnipresent, and immensity itself, seeing there is no going from him, either in heaven or in earth, in the sea, or in hell.

Holiness also. He is "declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the Spirit of Holiness, by the resurrection from the dead," Rom. i. 4. If he be the Spirit of Holiness, he must have holiness in himself, as he has; and he is the author of holiness in all the saints, for they are sanctified by the Holy Ghost, who dwells in them. "Know ye not that your bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost? Ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, 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. He is called the "Spirit of truth," and "truth itself," who leads the saints into all truth. The "Spirit of wisdom" also; —and, if he be the Spirit of truth, and truth itself, then he must be divine verity and divine wisdom, or he cannot be the Spirit of truth and wisdom. All these things, properly considered, are sufficient to prove that the Holy Ghost is a person, a divine person, and therefore truly and properly God.

I must conclude, wishing my dear brother much of the presence of God in