known in his Word is JEHOVAH, not unaptly called the incommunicable name, because it is never communicated, or assigned, to any other than the Supreme Being. It denotes not only the eternity, and self-existence, but likewise the unity of God. "That men may know that Thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the Most High over all the earth.”* We believe the Father to be JEHOVAH, the Son JEHOVAH, and (as I am about to show) the Holy Ghost JEHOVAH, and yet not three Jehovahs, but ONE JEHOVAH.† For "JEHOVAH, our ELOHIM" (our plurality of Persons) "is ONE JEHOVAH."‡ We do not presume to make divisions in the Deity, but we believe and maintain those distinctions of person which God himself has been pleased to reveal. That the name JEHOVAH is given to the Holy Spirit will be evident, if adopting the Apostle's rule for investigating the deep things of God we compare spiritual things with spiritual.||

1. In Numb. xiv. 11, the Israelites are said to have provoked JEHOVAH. "JEHOVAH said unto Moses, how long will this people provoke me?" According to the Prophet Isaiah, JEHOVAH whom they provoked was the HOLY SPIRIT, ch. lxiii. 10.-" But they rebelled and vexed his HOLY SPIRIT."

2. In Numb. xii. 6, it is said, "If there be a Prophet among you, I JEHOVAH will make myself known to him.” Referring to 2 Peter i. 21, we read that "prophecy came not in old time by the will of man, but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the HOLY GHOST." JEHOVAH, therefore, who made himself known to the Prophets is the HOLY GHOST.

* Psalm lxxxiii. 18.

† Vide Athanasian Creed.

Deut. vi. 4.

1 Cor. iii. 13. The necessity of diligent and deep investigation in examining the truths of God's Word is beautifully enforced Prov. ii. 1-5.

3. In Isaiah's vision of the Lord of Hosts (chap. vi.)* the Prophet heard the divine Speaker say, "Go, tell this people, hear ye indeed but understand not;" from Acts xxviii. 25, 26, we learn wHo this speaker was-" Well spake the HOLY GHOST by Esaias the Prophet unto our Fathers, saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand."

References might be multiplied, but these prove decisively that the HOLY GHOST is Jehovah.

Another name by which the Supreme Being is revealed in his Word is ELOHIM, a plural noun, rendered in our translation GOD. This plural noun, applied to the Godhead, is manifestly intended to convey the idea of what we call the Persons, or distinct Subsistences, in the one indivisible Godhead. The peculiarity of this use of a plural noun to denote the Godhead, joined as it is repeatedly with a singular verb, prepares the mind for the truth (afterwards more fully expressed) of God's peculiar mode of existence-a Trinity of Persons in a Unity of Essence. The following references will show that the HOLY GHOST is ELOHIM, GOD.

4. In Jer. xxiii. 23, 24, the Lord appeals-" Am I a GOD at hand, saith the LORD, and not a GOD afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD: Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD." The same question is asked in very nearly the same words in Ps. cxxxix. 7, 8.-" Whither shall I go from thy SPIRIT, or whither shall I flee from

*The glory manifested in this vision is shown to be the glory of the Father by Rev. iv. 8; and of the Son, John xii. 41; and of the Holy Ghost Acts xxviii. 26;-three Persons manifested in one and the same glory. So Scriptural is the statement of the Athanasian Creed-"The Godhead of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, is all one: the glory equal, the majesty co-eternal."

thy presence ?* If I ascend up into heaven, Thou" (not thine influence, but Thou Thyself) "art there: If I make my bed in hell, THOU art there," &c. Thus where. the SPIRIT is present, God himself is present; consequently the SPIRIT is GOD.

5. Referring to 2 Samuel xxiii. 2, 3, we find it written, "The SPIRIT OF THE LORD spake by me, and His. word was in my tongue. The GOD OF ISRAEL said, the ROCK OF ISRAEL spake to me.' Here are three names: the Spirit of the Lord, the God of Israel, and the Rock of Israel; and you must either understand by them, that three Divine Persons spoke, or apply the three names to the one Speaker. If you adopt the former interpretation, the doctrine of the TRINITY is admitted: if the latter, you must give to the SPIRIT the name of the GOD Of Israel.

In the Septuagint, (a translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek, completed more than two hundred years before the birth of our Saviour,) ELOHIM is rendered Ocòs, the word used in the New Testament to designate GOD. The following are two, among many, instances of this name God being given in the New Testament to the Holy Ghost.

6. St. Paul asks the Corinthians, 1 Cor. iii. 16, “Know ye not that ye are the temple of GOD, and that the SPIRIT of GOD dwelleth in you." Here the Proprietor of this temple is GOD, the Inhabitant the SPIRIT of GOD. But, 1 Cor. vi. 19, the HOLY GHOST is declared to be

* "From thy presence." The original word is even still more forcible in establishing our conclusion that “Where the Spirit is present, God himself is present:" it might be rendered "from thy PERSON." It is the same expression as that translated 2 Samuel xvii. Î1. "thine own person."

persona tua h. e.

hinc cum affixis' persona mea h. e. ego præsens

tu præsens.

the Proprietor "What know ye not that your body is the temple of the HOLY GHOST?" and in 2 Cor. vi. 16, GOD HIMSELF is declared to be the Inhabitant, "as GOD hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them." Let me beg you to mark well the combined testimony of these parallel statements, the Proprietor is GOD, and that God is the HOLY GHOST, the Inhabitant is the Spirit of God, and that Spirit of God is the LIVING* GOD HIMSELF.

7. Again, Zacharias, in the inspired song recorded Luke i. 68, 70, sings to this effect, that "the LORD GOD of Israel.... spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began." But the Apostle Peter, 2 Pet. i. 21, informs us that these holy men of God spake as they were moved by the HOLY GHOST. If there is any consistency in the Inspired Scriptures, the conclusion is self-evident that the Holy Ghost is the Lord God of Israel.

A third name is ADONAI, Lord, (distinguished in our Bible from JEHOVAH, by being printed in the smaller character), a title sometimes given to inferior beings: but when joined with Jehovah, and rendered the Lord GOD, can be applicable to none but the one glorious God.

8. In Ezek. viii. 1, it is said "The hand of ADONAI JEHOVAH fell there upon me;" in 3d verse the inspired writer explains WHO this was, for he says, "THE SPIRIT lifted me up, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem." In the conclusion of this, and the succeeding chapter, we find the Prophet still attended by this same Divine Person, before whom (ix. 8,) he falls down prostrate, invoking him by the title of ADONAI JEHOVAH. This Scripture then furnishes an instance

* The context from which the last of these references is taken is "for ye are the temple of the LIVING GOD; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them: and I will be their God, and they shall be my people."

of the Spirit being worshipped by the name ADONAI JEHOVAH.

But, not to tire you with more references than is needful, I will only further refer to Ps. lxxviii. 17, 22. In this portion of Scripture, a title is made use of which unquestionably belongs to the Supreme God. It is ELEON, MOST HIGH,* and well does the name become the Divine Majesty; for let us apply to HIм all the names we can, He will be infinitely above every name, and eternally transcend our highest conceptions.

In the Psalm referred to we read,-"The Israelites provoked the MOST HIGH in the wilderness,—they tempted EL (GOD) in their heart,-yea, they spake against THE ELOHIM, therefore JEHOVAH was wroth,—because they believed not in THE ELOHIM." To any one, who reads the passage attentively, it will appear as evident as language can make it, that these several titles, JEHOVAH, EL, ELOHIM, ELEON, i. e. LORD, GOD, GOD (denoting plurality of persons,) MOST HIGH; belong to one and the same Being. Do you ask wнo this Being is? We have it established by the testimony of three unexceptionable witnesses, that it was the HOLY SPIRIT. Isaiah (lxiii. 10,) declares that this provocation of the Israelites was against the HOLY SPIRIT,-"They rebelled and vexed HIS HOLY SPIRIT." The martyr Stephen says, that "they resisted the HOLY GHOST, Acts vii. 51. And the Apostle to the Hebrews, (iii. 7, 9,) gives additional confirmation by declaring, that it is the HOLY GHOST who saith, "Your Fathers tempted мE, proved мE, and saw MY works, forty years."

* When Melchisedec blessed Abram, he employed this supreme title EL ELEON," to express the Divine Majesty. "Blessed be Abram of the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth."-Gen. xiv. 19.