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Sacred Pneumatology, Or, the Scripture Doctrine of the Holy Spirit
Sacred Pneumatology Or the Scripture Doctrine of the Holy Spirit Author:Joseph Wilson General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1836 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. ON THE DIVINITY OF THE HOLY GHOST. 1. As the doctrine of the Trinity is strictly and properly one of divine Revelation, so our arguments, whether in proof of the Personality or Divinity of the Holy Ghost, must be drawn from the Old and New Testament: and as they have already furnished us with an accumulation of proof of his Personality, so will they furnish us with arguments equally demonstrative of his true and proper Divinity. 2. In prosecuting our present subject, we shall argue from the Appellations which are given in the sacred Scriptures to the Holy Ghost; from his Works ; and from the Attributes which are ascribed to him. 3. In Exodus xxxiv. 34. The sacred Historian says, " But when Moses went in before the Lord to speak with Him, he took the veil off", until he came out." ' And that Lord with whom Moses spake was the one Jehovah, the God of Heaven and Earth. But we are assured that the Spirit was and is that Lord to which Moses spake ; for the Apostle hath taught us so much by his own interpretation, saying; " Even unto this day when Moses is read, the veil is upon their heart. Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. Now theLord is That Spirit." (2 Cor. iii. 15 -- 17.) The Spirit is here so plainly said to be The Lord, that is Jehovah, the one eternal God, that the adversaries of this truth must either deny that the Lord is here to be taken for God, or, that the Spirit is to be taken for the Spirit of God: either of which denials must seem very strange to any person which considereth the force and plainness of the Apostle's discourse.'1 4. In...« less