praise that redounds to God by men; and will be greatly concerned in the first resurrection, the resurrection of the just. "The dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God;" and the Spirit will attend it, and quicken them all, as it is written; But, if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies, by his Spirit that dwelleth you," Rom. viii. 11.

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I must beg my dear brother's pardon for the length of this epistle. My pen ran on; and, being deeply engaged in the subject, I had quite forgotten myself. Ponder these matters over attentively, and send me your thoughts upon the subject. I have written them as I see and believe them; and so to see and believe, in my judgment, is to walk in the ways of God safely.

Ever yours,

W. H.

LETTER III.

To the Rev. J. JENKINS, Lewes, Sussex.

IF

DEARLY BELOVED IN THE LORD JESUS. PER

FECT PEACE, AND AT SUCH A TIME.

F I have not wearied my beloved brother with my epistles on the pleasing subject, I will reassume it and proceed. That the Holy Spirit is properly a person, I have endeavoured to prove from scripture; and that he is a divine person appears as plain, because he personally subsists and has life in himself." As the Father hath life in himself, so hath he given to the Son to have life in himself," John v. 26. And so hath the Spirit life in himself. This appears in his creation-work. "The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life," Job xxxiii. 4. He quickened, animated, and inspired Adam, and furnished him with a life of love. What power but a divine person, who has life in himself, could form a living soul in Adam, and give him life, righteousness, and true holiness? He is the author of natural and spiritual life. "It is the Spirit that quickeneth." And, as he giveth spiritual life, so he maintains it; hence he is called, "A well of living water, springing up into everlasting life," John iv. 14.

And all the elect of God, who are by nature dead in trespasses and sins, and children of wrath, even as others, these doth the Holy Spirit quicken. I will put my Spirit in you, and ye shall live, Ezek. xxxvii. 14. Hence our Saviour says, "If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink. He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said, out of his belly sh il flow rivers of living water. But this spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him shall receive; for the Holy Ghost was not yet given, because that Jesus was not yet glorified." It was the Spirit that quickened the Saviour's body in the tomb. He was put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit, 1 Peter iii. 18. Hence the Spirit is expressly called life; and he will, at the last day, quicken all that ever died in the Lord. And, if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness." I have sowed and you have reaped; " And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together," John iv. 36. The Spirit, as a well of living water, shall spring up into everlasting life. This is the glorious harvest promised, as the present is the seedtime, in which the blessed crop that we have already got in hope is sown; for, "He that soweth to the Spirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting," Gal. vi. 8. If, therefore, the Spirit be not a person, and a divine. person too, who has eternal life in himself, we never

could reap everlasting life from him by yielding spiritual obedience to him. I say spiritual obedience, because we are said to serve in newness of Spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter, which is only bodily exercise. And we are said, likewise, to worship God in the Spirit, and to walk in newness of life. Furthermore, the names which, in the strictest sense, are peculiar to God, are by the scriptures given to the Holy Ghost. As Jehovah; which is an incommunicable name of God. "Thou, whose name alone is Jehovah, art the most high over all the earth," Psalm lxxxiii. 18. He, whom the children of Israel tempted and proved, vexed and rebelled against, was Jehovah. And Isaiah ascribes it to the Holy Ghost; "But they rebelled, and vexed his Holy Spirit; therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and fought against them," Isaiah lxiii. 10. The apostle ascribes the same to him. "Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith, To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness; when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest.” Isaiah, and the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, ascribe this tempting and rebelling of the Israelites to be done against the Holy Ghost; therefore the Holy Ghost must be

Jehovah, and so it is written, "And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted Jehovah, saying, Is Jehovah among us or not? Exod. xvii. 7. It is therefore plain that the Holy Ghost is Jehovah, which incommunicable name is peculiar to the most high

God.

The Holy Ghost is called God, not in a figurative, but in a proper sense. "Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" 1 Cor. iii. 16. What is not essentially God cannot be the Spirit of God; therefore the Holy Ghost is God. The Spirit of Jehovah is Jehovah the Spirit; the Spirit of God is God the Spirit. And this rule may be seen in the Epistle to the Corinthians. "Nevertheless, when it shall turn to the Lord, the veil shall be taken away. Now the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty." The Spirit of the Lord is the Lord the Spirit. Hence we may safely conclude that the Holy Ghost is Jehovah, God, and Lord.

And to shew the divine equality of the adorable persons in the Godhead, each person at times is named or placed first. Sometimes Christ is named first. "The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen." Sometimes the Holy Spirit stands first. "That their hearts might be comforted, being knit toge