With respect to the Personality of the Holy Ghost, it may be observed, 1. That it follows from the mode of his subsistence in the Sacred Trinity.— He proceeds from the Father and the Son, and, therefore, cannot be either. To say that an attribute proceeds or comes forth from God would be a gross absurdity. Accordingly, our Lord most clearly represents the Holy Ghost as the third person of the Divine essence, and as distinguished personally from the Father and the Son. His language is, I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever. This Comforter, said he, is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name. John 14:16, 26. Here he calls the first person, most expressly and undeniably, the Father, and the third person, as expressly, the Holy Ghost. It is, therefore, most evident, and beyond even the possibility of a doubt, that he does not, by these two appellatives, mean one and the same Divine person. A Complete System of Christian Theology: A Concise, Comprehensive, and Systematic View of the Evidences, Doctrines, Morals, and Institutions of Christianity.
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