which the HOLY GHOST by the mouth of DAVID Spake, &c. Therefore, the terms LORD and GOD are certainly used to express the Divinity of the HOLY GHOST.

So again;

It was the LORD GOD of Ifrael, who SPAKE by the mouth of his holy Prophets, fince the world began. Luke I. 68.70.

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But then, it is written well SPAKE the HOLY GHOST by Efaias the prophet, &c. Therefore, the Holy Ghoft is the LORD GOD of Ifrael.

XX.

Pfal. CXXXIX. 7. Whither shall I go from THY SPIRIT? or whither shall I go from thy Prefence? If I afcend up into heaven, THOU art there.

The Pfalmift to acknowlege the omniprefence of the Holy Ghoft, fays-Whither fhall I go from thy Spirit? and by what is immediately fubjoined, he fhews this to be the omnipresence of God himself - If I afcend up into heaven, THOU art there. So that the terms Thou, and thy Spirit, are equivalent; i. e. equally conclu

a Acts 28.25.

five for the immediate prefence of the divine na

ture itself.

XXI.

It was faid by the Angel

Luke I. 32.

He fhall be great, and fhall be called the SON of the HIGHEST. But the reafon given upon this occafion WHY Chrift was called the SON OF GOD, is this, and this only, viz. because he was begotten by the Holy Ghoft-"The Holy "Ghoft fhall come upon thee, and the Power "of the HIGHEST fhall overfhadow thee: "THEREFORE also that holy thing which "shall be born of thee shall be called the Son "of GOD." v. 35.

When Jefus is called the Son of God, we understand the fupreme and true God, besides whom The Devils themselves al

there is no other. lowed it, and faid

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Jefus, thou Son of God "MOST HIGH!" But, the Perfon in God, whofe Son Jefus is said to be in this place, is the Holy Ghoft, by whose Power (called the Power of the highest) he was begotten of the bleffed virgin, and thence called the Son of God.

Therefore, the Holy Ghoft is God, and the Highest.

a Luke 8. 28.

XXII.

The Prophet Isaiah, in his 6th Chapter, tells us he faw the LORD OF HOSTS. And at v. 8. that he heard the voice of the LORD, SAYING-Go and tell this people, hear ye indeed but understand not, &c.

Yet these very words, which the prophet declares to have been spoken by the Lord, even the Lord of Hofts, were spoken by the Holy Ghost — Well SPAKE THE HOLY GHOST, by Efaias the prophet, unto our Fathers, faying, Go unto this People and fay, hearing ye shall hear, and fhall not understand,* &c.

Therefore, the HOLY GHOST is the LORD OF HOSTS.

The article of the Holy Ghofts fupreme and abfolute Divinity being now established in the plaineft terms; I fhall proceed to answer, from the Scripture, the objections usually made against it from thence.

XXIII.

+Matth. XIX. 17. There is none GOOD but ONE, that is GOD.

a Acts XXVIII. 26, 27.

If this be a good objection to the Divinity of Christ, it must be equally strong against that of the Holy Ghost, for it is argued from this paffage, that the attribute of goodness is confined to the fingle perfon of God the Father; who therefore is a Being fuperior to, and different from Chrift and the Holy Ghoft. The Error of this argument has been fully fhewn above: for it is not one perfon, but one God, whom the Scripture has afferted to be good; and I have now an opportunity of confirming it, and of proving withal, that in the unity of this one God, befides whom no other is good, the perfon of the Holy Ghoft is, and muft be, included. For it is written Thy SPIRIT is GOOD—so that if the fame inspired Scripture which declares the perfon of the Spirit to be good, does alfo as plainly declare that none is good, but God only; then the Spirit is God, even the only true and fupreme God; and we are as well affured of it, as if it had been faid, "there is none Good but "one, that is the Spirit, who is one with God.” The Hebrew in this place is yet stronger than the English. It is not a good, but na Goodness. itself, that is, divine effential uncommunicated "goodness, besides which there neither is nor can any other of the like kind. There is one

be

fort of goodness communicated to men upon earth; as we read, Pfal, 112. 5. the good man Sheweth favour, &c. and Acts XI. 24. that Barnabas was a good man, and full of faith, &c. There is another fort of goodness to be found only in heaven, and that is the goodness of God, which is effential; but this goodness is also an attribute of the Spirit; who therefore is proved to be very God; and by that argument too, for the fake of which, fome have denied him to be God.

XXIV.

+ Matth. III. 16. The Spirit of God.

The Spirit, fay they, is not God, because he is only the Spirit of God. But so likewise the human Spirit, whence the Apostle has taught us to borrow an Idea of the Divine, is the Spirit OF a man; yet, was it ever pretended, that the Spirit, for this reason, is one Being, and the man another? No, certainly: and the fame must be true of God, and the Spirit of God; as far as the Being of the fame man, who is one perfon, can be an image of the fame God, who is three perfons. But there is the plainest testimony of Scripture, that the Spirit, though said to be the Spirit OF Jehovah, is also name of Jehovah himself.

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