Welchman on Article V: Of the Holy Ghost

The Hil; GhaJt, &c.] Since those Operations are attri- buted to the Holy Ghost, which cannot be aseribed but to a Person distinct from the Father and the Son, such as, to make Intercession for the Saints (Rom. viii. 27.) to come as sent by the Father in the Name of Christ (John xiv. 26.) to take wwhat was Christ’s, and foew it unts others (John xvi. 14.) and since those Things are attributed to him, which cannot be ascribed to any other but God, such as, to have the Bodies of the Faithful for His Temples (1 Cor. lit. 16. and vi. 19.) and even to have the waole Church dedicated by Baptism to him, as well as to the Father, and the Son, (Matth. xxviii. 19.) it necesiarily follows, that He is Very and Eternal Ged, equal with the Father and the Son, and together with Them to be adored and invoked.

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« Disciples that Faith, which is in One Lord Jesus Christ, „ the Son of God, who was incarnate for our Salvation; and in the Holy Ghost, who spake by the Prophets.”

See also the Homily on Whit-Sunday, Part I. Pearson on the Creed, Art. VIII. Scott’s Christian Life, Part II. Ch. 7. Sect. 1. Nelson’s Festivals, T rin. Sund. Prideauzx’s Fasc. Controv. C. 2. Q. 5, b. Andrews on Acts xix. 1, 2, 3.

Proceeding from the Father] See John xv. When the Comporter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Fa- ther, even the Spirit of Truth, which proceedeth from the

| Father, he shall teflify of me. | Ade. Prax- And the Son] See 1 Pet. i. 11. Where the Holy Ghost . . 16 called the Spirit of Christ. See also Tertullian. In the „mean Time he poured forth the Holy Ghost, a Git „ which he had received from the Father; the Third „Name of the Godhead, and the Third Person in the © Order or Rank of the Divine Majesty.”

Of one Substance, & .] See 1 Cor. iii. 16, 17. Know ye not that ye are the Temple of Go, and that the Spirit of God dibelleth in you? If any Man defile the Temple of God, him shall God dejtroy : For the Temple of God is holy, which Temple ye are. And 1 Cor. vi. 19. What, know ye not that your Body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? And Hals v. 3, 4. Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thine Heart to lye to the Holy Ghost, and to keep back Part of the Price of the Land? While it remained, was it not thine own ? and after it was fold, was it not in thine own Power f I hy hast thou conceived this Thing in thine Heart © Thou hajt not lyed unto Men, but unto. God.

451 1. dee alio Tustin Martyr. “ Acknowledging the Son of

co 16, & the true God himself, and placing him as next in Or-

& der, and then the Prophctical Spirit, we will shew that

B. c. 6. we justly honour them.” And again. We worship

Atv. Her. and adore the Prophetical Spirit.” And [reneus. “ He

„ 4. . 1. (meaning God the Father) is ministered unto in every

„thing by his Offspring and 1 that is, the

„ Son and Holy Ghost, his Word and Wildem, whom

I. I. 4. all the Angels serve and are subject to.” And again.

• 6 Because Wisdom also, which is the Holy Ghost, was

c with God before the Creation of all Things; therefore he faith by $-920n, That th? Lord by Il isdom hath & founded the Earth.” Prov. iii. 19. And again. Now we receive some Portion of his Spirit to perfect us, and

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cc ourselves by little and little to comprehend and bear

e the Majesty of God.” And St. Cyprian. If he be EY. 73 * made the Temple of God, I ask, Of wnat God? If he

„ answer, Of the Creator, he could not be his Temple,

« because he did not believe in him. If he {ay of Christ,

“ neither can he be made his Temple, because he denies

& Christ to be God. Or if he say, Of the Holy Ghost,

« yetfince these three are One, how can the Holy Ghost

be reconciled to that Man, who is an Enemy either to

«the Father or to the Son?“

Very and Eternal God) The most notorious Opposer of the Godhead of the Holy Ghost, was A. acedonius, Patri- arch of Constantinople. The Heresy itself is calied the He- resy of the Pneumatomachi, or Fighters agninft the Spirit ; as denying the Divinity of the Holy Ghost, and aflerti; ng that he is only a created Energy or Power, attending upon

and ministring unto the Son. In order to put a Stop to this Heresy, the first Council of Constantinople, to these Words in the Vicene Creed, J believe in the Holy Gh,