XXIII.
Seest thou that the Spirit is inseparable from the
divinity? And no one with pious apprehensions could fancy that He
is a creature. Moreover, in the Epistle to the Hebrews he writes
again thus: “How shall we escape, if we neglect so great
salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was
confirmed unto us by them that heard Him; God also bearing them
witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and
gifts of the Holy Ghost?”363
And again he says in the same
epistle: “Wherefore, as the Holy
Ghost saith, Today, 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;
for
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they have not
known my ways: as I sware in my
wrath, that they should not enter
into my
rest.”
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And there, too, they ought to give
ear to
Paul, for he by no means separates the
Holy Spirit from the
divinity of the
Father and the Son, but clearly sets forth the
discourse of the Holy
Ghost as one from the person of the
Father, and
thus as given expression to
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by
God, just as it has been represented in the before-mentioned
sayings. Wherefore the holy Trinity is believed to be one God, in
accordance with these testimonies of Holy Scripture; albeit all through
the inspired Scriptures numberless announcements are supplied us, all
confirmatory of the apostolic and ecclesiastical
faith.
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