5. Thou wilt find many other titles of the
Holy Ghost besides. Thus He is called the Spirit of Holiness, as
it is written, According to the Spirit of Holiness Rom. i. 4.. He is also called the Spirit of
adoption, as Paul saith, For ye received not the spirit of bondage
again unto fear, but ye received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we
cry, Abba, Father Ib. viii.
15.. He is also
called the Spirit of revelation, as it is written, May give you the
Spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him Eph. i. 17.. He is also called the Spirit of
promise, as the same Paul says, In whom ye also after that ye
believed, were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise Ib. v.
13.. He is also called the Spirit of
grace, as when he says again, And hath done despite to the Spirit of
grace Heb. x. 29.. And by many
other such-like titles is He named. And thou heardest plainly in
the foregoing Lecture, that in the Psalms He is called at one time
the good Spirit Cat. xvi. 28;
Ps. cxliii. 10., and at another the
princely Spirit ἡγεμονικῷ, Sept.
Ps. li. 12: R.V. Uphold me with a free spirit.; and in Esaias He
was styled the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, of counsel, and
might, of knowledge, and of godliness, and of the fear of
God Is. xi. 2.. By all which
Scriptures both those before and those now alleged, it is established,
that though the titles of the Holy Ghost be different, He is one and
the same; living and subsisting, and always present together with the
Father and the Son Origen, in the Catena
on St. John iii. 8: “This also shews that the Spirit is a
Being (οὐσίαν): for
He is not, as some suppose, an energy of God, having according to them
no individuality of subsistence. And the Apostle also, after
enumerating the gifts of the Spirit, immediately added, But all
these worketh the one and the same Spirit, dividing to each one
severally as He will. Now if He willeth and worketh and
divideth, He is surely an energizing Being, but not an energy”
(Suicer, Thesaurus, Πνευμα).; not uttered or
breathed from the mouth and lips of the Father or the Son, nor
dispersed into the air, but having a real substance ἐνυπόστατον.
Cf. Cat. xi. 10; xvi. 13, note 5., Himself speaking, and working, and
dispensing, and sanctifying; even as the Economy of salvation which is
to usward from the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, is
inseparable and harmonious and one, as we have also said before.
For I wish you to keep in mind those things which were lately spoken,
and to know clearly that there is not one Spirit in the Law and the
Prophets, and another in the Gospels and Apostles; but that it is One
and the Self-same Holy Spirit, which both in the Old and in the New
Testament, spoke the divine Scriptures Cat. iv. 16; xvi.
4..