enabled to speak foreign languages, work miracles,
and propagate the doctrines of Christianity; and by
which they were comforted amidst the afflictions to
which they were subject for the sake of their Master.-
Acts i. 5-8: " John truly baptized with water; but
ye shall be baptized with the holy spirit not many
days hence.
Ye shall receive POWER, after that the
holy spirit is come upon you." (Comp. John xx. 22:
"Jesus BREATHED on them, and saith, Receive ye the
holy spirit." Luke xxiv. 49: “I send you the pro-
mise of my Father upon you; but tarry ye in the
city, until ye be endued with POWER from on high.")
-See Matt. xix. 20. John xiv. 16-26.

17, 18, 33. Acts iv. 8, 31.

Heb. ii. 4.

Acts ii. 4,

The instances of such applications of the terms spirit and holy spirit occur very frequently in the New Testament, particularly in the Acts of the Apostles.

29. The spiritual meaning of Christ's language.—John vi. 63: "It is the spirit that quickeneth: the flesh pro

fiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you are spirit and are life."

30. The Christian dispensation as contrasted with the Jewish ritual.-Phil. iii. 3: “We are the circumcision who worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh " (comp. ver. 4-6.)-See Rom. vii. 6; viii. 15. 2 Cor. iii. 6-8 (comp. v. 9), et al.

31. The holy influence of the Gospel on the minds of men, particularly in opposition to the influence of worldlymindedness.-Gal. v. 16-25: "Walk in the spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh..... The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering," &c. See John iii. 5-8. Acts ix. 31. Rom. viii. 4 14. 1 Cor. ii. 12-14. Gal. iv. 6; vi. 8. 1 Pet. iv. 6, et al.

32. The mind and affections as enlightened and purified by Christianity.-2 Cor. vi. 4-6: "Approving ourselves... by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the holy spirit," &c.-See Rom. xiv. 17. 1 Cor. xii. 13. Phil. ii. 1. Col. i. 8. Jude 19, et al. 33. Spiritual blessings in general.-Luke xi. 13: “If ye, then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children; how much more shall [your] heavenly Father give the holy spirit" (Matt. vii. 11, "give GOOD THINGS") "to them that ask him?"

SECT. II.-PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE CONTAINING EXPRESSIONS RELATIVE TO THE SPIRIT, WHICH INDICATE, NOT A DIVINE PERSON DISTINCT FROM GOD, THE FATHER, AND EQUAL TO HIM,BUT THE HOLY OR SUPERNATURAL INFLUENCE OF THE DEITY ON THE MINDS OF HIS SERVANTS, WITH THE ACCOMPANYING GIFTS AND POWERS.

1. The spirit of God was in Joseph and Joshua.-Gen. xli. 38. Numb. xxvii. 18. The holy spirit was put within Moses.-Isa. lxiii. 11. A new spirit was promised to be put within the Jewish people.-Ezek. xi. 19; xxxvi. 26, 27; xxxvii. 14.

2. The spirit of Jehovah was upon, put upon, or came upon the prophets, and other inspired persons.-Numb. xi. 17; xxiv. 2. Judges iii. 10; xi. 29; xiv. 6; xv. 14. 1 Sam. x. 6, 10; xi. 6; xvi. 13;

2 Kings ii. 9. 2 Chron. xv. 1; xx. 14.

xix. 20, 23.

Isa. lix. 21.

Luke i. 35; ii. 25; iv. 18. Acts i. 8; xix. 6.

3. The spirit of Jehovah fell on Ezekiel.-Ezek. xi. 5.

The holy spirit fell on the primitive Christians.—
Acts viii. 16; x. 44; xi. 15.

4. God's holy spirit descended, lighted, and rested, or abode

on Christ, and was put upon him.-Isa. xi. 2; xlii.

1; lxi. 1. Matt. iii. 16; xii. 18. Mark i. 10. Luke iii. 22; iv. 18. John i. 32, 33.

5. With the holy spirit and with power God anointed Jesus of Nazareth.-Acts x. 38.

6. The Saviour, and many individuals both under the

Jewish and Christian dispensation, were full of, or filled with, the spirit of wisdom, the holy spirit, the spirit of God.-Exod. xxviii. 3; xxxi. 3; xxxv. 31. Deut. xxxiv. 9. Luke i. 15, 41, 67; iv. 1. Acts ii. 4; iv. 8, 31; vi. 3, 5; vii. 55; ix. 17; xi. 24; xiii. 9, 52. Eph. v. 18.

7. To the apostles, and other primitive disciples of Christ, the holy spirit was partially given; but to their Lord and Master it was given without measure.—Luke xi. 13. John iii. 34. Acts v. 32: viii. 18; xi. 17; xv. 8. Rom. v. 5. 2 Cor. i. 22; v. 5. 1 Thess. iv. 8. 1 John iii. 24; iv. 13. Also, Acts ii. 38; x. 45;

xi. 16, 17. Heb. ii. 4; vi. 4.

8. Conformably to the expression just mentioned, the apostles and other primitive Christians received the holy spirit.-John vii. 39; xx. 22. Acts ii. 38; viii. 15, 17, 19; x. 47; xix. 2. 1 Cor. ii. 12. 2 Cor. xi. 4. Gal. iii. 2, 14.

9. With the same spirit they were baptized.-Matt. iii. 11. Mark i. 8. Luke iii. 16. John i. 33. Acts i. 5; xi. 16.

10. The apostles were supplied with the spirit of Christ, Phil. i. 19; and were partakers of it, Heb. vi. 4. 11. The holy spirit, or spirit of God, was poured out or shed forth both on Jews and Gentiles.-Isa. xxxii. 15;

xliv. 3.

Ezek. xxxix. 29. Joel ii. 28.

Acts ii. 17,

Titus iii. 5,

18, 33; x. 45.

6.

12. Believers were sealed with the holy spirit of promise.Eph. i. 13.

OR

SECT. III.--PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE IN WHICH, BY PROSOPOPOEIA, THE SPIRIT, HOLY SPIRIT, SPIRIT OF GOD IS SPOKEN OF AS POSSESSING PERSONAL PROPERTIES AND PERFORMING PERSONAL ACTIONS.

1. Matt. x. 20: It is not ye that speak, but the spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.-See Par. Pas.; and comp. Luke xxi. 14, 15.

2. Acts i. 16: This scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the holy spirit, by the mouth of David, spake before, &c.-See chap. xxviii. 25. Heb. iii. 7; ix. 8; x. 15. 2 Sam. xxiii. 2. Luke ii. 26.

3. Acts viii. 29: The spirit said unto Philip, Go, &c.— See chap. x. 19; xiii. 2; xx. 23; xxi. 11. 1 Tim. iv. 1. Ezek. ii. 2; iii. 24; xi. 5.

4. Acts xiii. 4: They, being sent forth by the holy spirit,

departed.

5. Acts xv. 28: It seemed good to the holy spirit, and to

us,
&c.

6. Acts xx. 28: Over which the holy spirit hath made

you overseers.

....

7. Acts xvi. 6: They were forbidden of the holy spirit to preach the word in Asia.-See ver. 7; chap. xi. 12. 1 Cor. xii. 11.

The preceding passages may justly be considered as referring either to God himself, or to the divine impulse by which his servants were actuated. Those which follow, IF they prove the personality of the

holy spirit, prove also in the strongest manner, that the being mentioned therein is inferior to God, the Father, and to his Son Jesus Christ.

8. John xiv. 16-26: 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, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you..... These things have I spoken unto you, being [yet] present with you. But the Comforter, the holy spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.

9. John xv. 26: When the Comforter is come, whom I WILL SEND unto you FROM THE FATHER, [even] the spirit of truth which PROCEEDETH FROM THE FATHER, he shall testify of me.-See 1 Pet. i. 12.

10. John xvi. 7—15: If I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I WILL SEND HIM unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment. .... I have yet many things to say unto you; but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit, when he, the spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth; for he shall not speak OF HIMSELF; but WHATSOEVER he SHALL HEAR, [that] shall he speak; and he will show you things to come. He shall glorify me; for he shall RECEIVE of mine, and shall show [it] unto you,

&c.

11. Acts v. 32: We are his witnesses of these things; and [so is] also the holy spirit, whom (which) God hath GIVEN to them that obey him.

12. Rom. viii. 26, 27: The spirit helpeth our infirmities; for we know not what we should pray for as we