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CHA P. II.

The DIVINITY of the HOLY GHOST.

I.

John III. 6. Το γεγεννημένον ΕΚ το Πνεύματος That which is BORN OF the

SPIRIT.

1 John V. 4. Το γεγεννημένον ΕΚ τ8 Θε8 whatsoever is BORN OF GOD.

The fame individual act of divine Grace, viz. that of our spiritual birth, is ascribed, without the change of a fingle Letter, to God, and to the Spirit. Some capacity then there must be, wherein the Scripture makes no diftinction between God and the Spirit: and this is what the Scripture itself calls the divine nature; under which God and the Spirit are both equally comprebended.

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II.

II.

Acts XIII. 2. The HOLY GHOST faid, feparate ME Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I HAVE CALLED them.

Heb. V. 4. No man taketh this honour to himself, but he that is CALLED of

GOD.

The shorter way is to ask this fame Saul, who it was that appointed him to the work of the miniftry? and his anfwer is no other than thisPaul CALLED to be an Apostle, SEPARATED unto the Gospel-By the commandment of GOD OUR SAVIOUR.

III.

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Matth. IX. 38. PRAY ye therefore the LORD OF THE HARVEST, that He will SEND FORTH Labourers into his harveft.

Acts XIII.4. So they being SENT FORTH

BY THE HOLY GHOST.

a Rom. I. 1. and 1 Tim. I. 1.

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In this act of fending forth Labourers upon the work of the Gospel, the Holy Ghost is proved to be the Lord of the Harvest, to whom Christ himself has directed us to PRAY. Wherefore, they are not to be heard, who advise us to alter the third petition in the Litany; a work, to which I am sure the Holy Ghoft hath not called us, and fuch as will never be confented to by any Labourers of his fending.

IV.

Luke II. 26. And it was revealed unto him (7) BY the HOLY GHOST, that he should not fee Death, before he had feen the Lord's Chrift.

Ibid. v. 28. And he BLESSED GOD, and faid, LORD now letteft thou thy fervant depart in peace, according to

THY WORD.

a I fet down the prepofition, because it slays the Arian with his own weapon. It fhews the prime agency and authority in this affair to have been that of the Holy Ghost, acting in his own right, and not as the minifter or inftrument of an higher power; for then, according to them, it should have been da. For my own part, I lay no stress upon it; because I perceive, upon a review of the Scripture, that these two prepofitions are often ufed indifcriminately.

This word, was the word of the Holy Ghoft; who therefore is intitled to the context, and is God and Lord to be blessed or praised; not under any imaginary restrictions and limitations, according to a certain degree of Power delegated to him: an evafion you will meet with in fome modern writers, but the Scripture, and common reason instructed by the Scripture, disclaim and abhor it, as an inlet to all forts of Idolatry.

V.

John XIV. 17.
17. HE (the

HE (the SPIRIT of
Truth) dwelleth with you and fhall

be IN YOU.

1 Cor. XIV. 25. GOD is IN YOU of a truth.

VI.

2 Tim. III. 16. All Scripture is given by INSPIRATION of GOD.

2 Pet. I. 21. Holy men of God spake as they were MOVED BY the HOLY

GHOST.

VII.

John VI. 45. It is written in the Pro

phets,

phets, and they fhall be all TAUGHT of GOD.

1 Cor. II. 13. Not in the words which mans wisdom teacheth, but which the HOLY GHOST TEACHETH.

This latter verfe would prove the Holy Ghoft to be God by itfelf: for I cannot find that man, in the ftyle of the Scripture, is ever oppofed in this manner to any being but God only. I will fubjoin a few examples of it.

John I. 13.
God.

Nor of the will of man, but of

Theff. IV. 8. He therefore that defpifeth, defpifeth not man, but God.

Rom. I. 29. Whofe praife is not of men, but of God.

VIII.

Acts V. 3. Why hath Satan filled thine heart to LYE to the HOLY GHOST. Ibid. v. 4.—Thou haft not LYED unto men, but unto GOD.

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Dr. Clarke affirms, that "the Perfon of the Holy Ghoft is no where in Scripture expreffly "ftiled God." And then adds, by way of authority

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