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ans" Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost?"* And, again, “ Know ye not that ye are the temple of God?+ ye are," says he, "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."‡

"The Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God."||

We are told in the Acts, the Spirit directed Philip to go in the way of the Eunuch; and then, that "the Spirit of the Lord caught away Philip."

In another instance, the express declaration that the Spirit is God is given, where the Apostle prays, "Now God himself, and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you."¶

It is said "Christ, through the eternal spirit, offered himself without spot to God."**

In one part of scripture, we are informed, "Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost;"++ and in another that this Holy Ghost is one with the Father; for Paul, writing to the Hebrews, says, "God, who at sundry times and in divers manners, spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets."‡‡

1 Cor. vi. 19.

1 Cor. ii. 10.

**Heb. ix. 14.

† 1 Cor. iii. 16. 2 Cor. vi. 16.

Acts viii. ¶ 1 Thes. iii. 11.

2 Peter i. 21. ‡‡ Heb. i. 1.-See references.

The great work of renovation performed by the Holy Spirit is, itself, sufficient proof of His Divinity: for what but Almighty energy is equal to such a work? In creation, as has been well remarked, the Most High merely made all things out of nothing; but in renovation He overcomes the most rooted opposition. The enmity of the heart in man must be subdued. The whole complexion of the inner nature must be changed. That which can not be subject to law must be brought to delight in law. Light must be brought out of darkness; life out of death; love out of hate. And who but God can effect it? Yet this is the peculiar office of the Holy Spirit. That enlightens, subdues, and purifies. That takes of the things that are Christ's, and shows them unto the soul.— That sweetly constrains and leads the whole man captive; not stopping until "every thought is brought-into-obedience."

The raising of the widow's son at Nain displayed the Divinity of the Redeemer. Speaking, as He did, in His own name, He showed that He exerted no borrowed power. Bringing from the grave of sin unto the life of righteousnesss, transforming a bondslave of Hell into an heir, and, eventually, an inhabitant of Heaven, displays the Divinity of the Spirit.— In the former instance, the soul obeyed the summons of one person of the Godhead, and

returned to a union with the body; in the latter, the soul submits itself to a new modelling; receives a new tendency; adopts a new service; becomes entirely a new creature. Renovation, therefore, is a more powerful proof of Divinity than resurrection. Both require the power of God, and the Spirit and the Redeemer are equal in the possession of that power; but, in the act we have mentioned, the Spirit puts forth a larger measure of that power.

In contemplating the character of the Spirit, we may learn what is our privilege and our duty.

We are, evidently, called to the exercise of admiring gratitude.

What but the Divine mind could have devised such a method of salvation-so consonant to the justice and mercy of the Godhead, and, at the same time, so overwhelming in infinite goodness to us. That, not only the Son of God should be given to unite Himself to our nature, and thus become the atonement for our sins, but that the Spirit of God should be added, to renew the lost image of our Maker, and give us tendencies, and capabilities, and a perfect suitableness for everlasting joy;-that the Father should "so" love "the world" as to give his only-begotten Son," and that the Son should so plead for us as to procure the renovating Spirit;-this is a theme which must

employ the faculties of the redeemed throughout eternity. Oh the depth!-must be our present exclamation. We see all the attributes of the Deity in perfect harmony moving:-each one not moving a step without the concurrence of all; and all so moving as to manifest that God is love: "Mercy and Truth" meeting 66 together: Righteousness and Peace" kissing each other:" and both, in lovely harmony, visiting our world, to open upon its inhabitants the hope and the joy of Heaven.

One duty resting upon us is, to give unto the Spirit the honour due unto Him. When Bezaleel was selected to make ready the curious workmanship of the tabernacle, it was said that he was prepared by the Spirit. When the seventy elders were set apart for the assistance of Moses, the Spirit was taken and given unto them.† Sampson and the men of might were prepared by the Spirit. David gave to Solomon the pattern of all things which he had by the Spirit. Even the ploughman is said to he enlightened of God. We may learn from all this, that, even though miraculous operations have passed away, it is of God, and of the Spirit of God, that men receive their various endowments. The very mind is created of God, and if that mind have bestowed upon it any

*Exodus xxxi. † Num. xi. Judges. 1 Chron. xxviii. 12. + Is. xxviii. 26.

extraordinary power, we should remember it is from God, and give to Him the glory.That arrogating to self the credit of skill and ability, instead of rendering to God the glory, is but a subordinate species of practical athe. ism.

Again: As the Holy Oracles are from the Spirit, we are to receive them with reverence, and bow to their majesty our feeble apprehension. What would you say of a man who should endeavour to mend the planetary system, or to alter the arrangements of the universe? The same may you say of him who attempts, by his paltry emendations, to change the volume of truth. Both are alike from God. Both are the result of the operations of the Spirit. We are to sit down with reverence to learn of the Spirit, thankful that we have Him to guide us into all truth.

Again: We have no miraculous operations passing in review before us, and, therefore, there is no danger of our falling into the error of the Jews, in the same particular with them— ascribing miracles to the power of the devil; but it is very possible for us to fall into it in other respects: viz: in attributing the ordinary operations of the Spirit to the delusions of Satan.

Certain it is that the heart of man is changed by the Holy Ghost. It is that blessed Spirit