CONCERNING THE TRINITY. 371 CHAPTER XXIX. Argument. — He next teachesus that the authorityof the faith enjoins,after the Father and the Son, to believe alsoon the Holy Spirit,whose operationshe enumerates from Scripture. Moreover, the orderof reason,and the authorityof the faithin the dispositionof the words and in the Scriptures of the Lord, admonish us afterthese thingsto believealso on the Holy Spirit,once promised to the church,and in the appointedoccasionsof times given. For He was promised by Joel the prophet,but given by Christ. "In the last days,"saysthe prophet," I willpour out of my Spiritupon my servantsand my handmaids."1 And the Lord said, " Receive ye the Holy Ghost : whose sinsye remit,they shallbe remitted; and whose ye retain,they shallbe re tained."2 But this Holy Spiritthe Lord Christ callsat one time " the Paraclete,"at another pronounces to be the " Spiritof truth."3 And He isnot new in the Gospel, nor yet even newly given; foritwas He Himself who accused the people in the prophets,and in the apostlesgave them the appeal to the Gentiles. For the former deservedto be accused,because they had contemned the law ; and they of the Gentileswho believedeserveto be aided by the defence of the Spirit,becausethey earnestlydesireto attainto the Gospel law. Assuredlyin the Spiritthereare differentkinds of offices,becauseinthetimesthereisa differentorderofocca sions; and yet,on thisaccount,He who dischargestheseoffices isnot different,nor isHe anotherin so acting,but He isone and the same, distributingHis officesaccordingto the times, and the occasionsand impulses of things. Moreover, the Apostle Paul says," Having the same Spirit; asitiswritten, I believed,and thereforehave I spoken; we alsobelieve,and thereforespeak."4 He isthereforeone and the same Spirit 1 Joelii.28; Actsii.17. * Johnxx.22,23. 8 Johnxiv.16,17. 42 Cor.iv.13.