66 66 being seen of his Apostles forty days,” until the day in which "he was taken up, " and a cloud received him out of their "sight." Exalted "above all principality, "and power, and might, and dominion "," he sitteth "at the right hand of the throne "of God 9." Thither he hath ascended "to prepare a place"" for us, and from thence "we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall change our vile body, "that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body;" and when he shall thus appear, we also shall 66 66 66 66 66 66 we also shall appear with him in glory," and he shall be glorified in his "saints, and admired in all them that "believe"." 7. "The Holy Ghost, proceeding from "the Father and the Son, is of one sub"stance, majesty, and glory with the Father "and the Son, very and eternal God." He is "the Lord and Giver of life, ... who "with the Father and the Son is worship • Acts i. 3. 9. P Ephes. i. 21. 9 Heb. xii. 2. John xiv. 2, 3. Philip. iii. 20, 21. t Coloss. iii. 4, u 2 Thess. i. 8. 10. S Art. V. × . 66 66 ped and glorified; who spake by the Prophets "." "The Holy Ghost is of the "Father and of the Son, neither made, nor "created, nor begotten, but proceeding"uncreate,... incomprehensible—eternal, Almighty-God, and-Lord." We acknowledge, that God did " teach the hearts "of his faithful people, by sending to them "the light of his Holy Spirit," and we pray, that we "by the same Spirit may have a "right judgment in all things, and ever"more rejoice in his holy comfort "." C These professions of faith, and the properties which are attributed to the Holy Spirit, may be justified on Scriptural arguments and authorities. He is called Lord and God, both directly and indirectly by the Apostle. He is "eternal "," and therefore uncreate; concerned in the work of creation, and therefore Almighty; omnipresent, and therefore incomprehensible, in the sense in which the word is used by y Nicene Creed. z Creed of St. Athanasius. a Collect for Whitsunday. b 1 Cor. xii. 5, 6. c Acts v. 3, 4. d Heb. ix. 14. e Gen. i. 2. f Psalm cxxxix. 7. our Church. He searcheth all things, ❝even the deep things of God," to whom he beareth the same relation as the " spirit "of a man" beareth to a man. He was sent by Christ", and "proceedeth from the 66 Father," and "God hath sent forth the "Spirit of his Son into our hearts." He is distinct from the Father and the Son; for it was "through the Eternal Spirit, that "Christ offered himself without spot to God';" and yet "such as the Father is, "such is the Son, and such is the Holy "Ghost";" for the name" in which we are baptized is one, and the mystery is one. It was the Divine Spirit which moved the holy men of old to speak "of the sufferings "of Christ, and of the glory that should "follow"," and he came to "bring all 66 things to the remembrance" of the Apostles, and to "guide them in all truth"." He distributeth as he will the different gifts, g 1 Cor. x. 11. h John xv. 26. xvi. 7. i John xv. 26. k Gal. iv. 6. 1 Heb. ix. 14. m Creed of St. Athanasius. n Matth. xxviii. 19. o Col. ii. 2. P 1 Pet. i. 11, 12. 2 Pet. i. 21. 9 John xiv. 26. r John xvi. 13. administrations, and operations of the Church, and likewise "helpeth our infirmities;" and it is "through the power of "the Holy Ghost, that the God of hope "filleth us with all joy and peace in be 66 lieving, that we may abound in hope"." Thus are we authorized in professing our belief in God the Father, who made us "and all the world; in God the Son, who "redeemed us and all mankind; and in "God the Holy Ghost, who sanctifieth us " and all the elect people of God.” 8. These are our professions of faith concerning God; of ourselves we confess, that "we have left undone those things which we ought to have done; we have done "those things which we ought not to have "done, and there is no health in us." In the same spirit of humiliation "we acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins " and wickedness, which we from time to “time most grievously have committed by thought, word, and deed against the Divine 66 66 s 1 Cor. xii. 4-6. t Rom. viii. 26. u Ibid. xv. 13. × Church Catechism. y General Confession. 66 66 Majesty, most justly provoking his wrath “and indignation against us." The Article teaches the cause of this disobedience : Original sin standeth not in the following "of Adam, as the Pelagians do vainly talk, "but it is the fault and corruption of the "nature of every man, that naturally is "engendered of the offspring of Adam, "whereby man is very far gone from ori"ginal righteousness, and is of his own 66 nature inclined to evil, so that the flesh "lusteth always contrary to the spirit, and "therefore in every person born into this 66 world, it deserveth God's wrath and "damnation. And this infection of na"ture doth remain, yea, in them that are "regenerated; whereby the lust of the flesh "... is not subject to the law of God.". We are " by nature born in sin, and the "children of wrath"." So saith the Apostle; we "were by nature children of "wrath" for "in Adam" not only did all die, but all did sine, and “ by one z Communion Office. a Art. IX. b Church Cate e Rom. v. 12. chism. c Ephes. ii. 3. 4 1 Cor. xv. 22. |