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and, 'grieve 1 not the Holy Spirit
of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.' In the former of the
two David prays for salvation from sin and deliverance through the power of
God's Holy Spirit, and in the latter the Apostle warns Christians not to grieve
God's Holy Spirit, whose seal had marked them as heirs of salvation. Both from
the sanctifying power which He exercises according to both passages, and from
the fact that the terms 'the Holy Spirit' and 'the Spirit of God' are used
concisely in place of the full expression, 'the Holy Spirit of God', it is clear
that what we have said above is correct, and that both titles denote one and the
same Divine Being.
From the verses which we have quoted above 2 in proof of the truth
of the doctrine of the Trinity in Unity it is evident that the titles Father,
Son and Holy Spirit, are not three different appellations of the divine unity,
but that they denote a certain ineffable distinction between these three Most
Holy Hypostases, each of whom in conjunction with the other two possesses Deity
and all the divine attributes. This is not the same thing as saying that each of
the three divine Hypostases apart and by Himself is God. On the contrary, the
Son and the Holy Spirit are God only by virtue of the eternal divine Oneness, in
which the Father, the Son and
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the Holy Spirit are one and only one God. Therefore the Lord Jesus Christ
never and nowhere said that He, apart from the Father, was God; nay, rather,
always and everywhere He taught His own Deity as resulting from His oneness with
the Father. Thus in the Gospel He says: ' I 1 and the Father are
one'; 'Believe 3 me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me.'
'All things that are mine are thine, and thine are mine.' 'Verily,4
verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the
Father doing: for what things soever he doeth, these the Son also doeth in like
manner.' In the same way the Lord Jesus Christ speaks of the Holy Spirit as
being one in will and teaching with His Father and Himself, for He says: 'When
5 he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the
truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall
hear, these shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to
come. He shall glorify me: for he shall take of mine, and shall declare it unto
you. All things whatsoever the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he
taketh of mine, and shall declare it unto you.' 6
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