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Spirit,
are sometimes called the Holy
Spirit..
This
has
been
always
granted
by
our
best
writers.
And
perhaps, this
may
be
the meaning
of
that
tern,
in
some
of
those places
of
scripture,
-where
the Spirit
is
said to
be
poured out
upon
men,
to
be shed down
on
the
apostles, to
be
given to believers
by laying on
the
hands
of
the apostles, where men are said to
have a
portion
of
the Spirit,
whether greater, or
less,
or
double;
or
perhaps,
where the Spirit
is
said
to
be,
or
not
to
be
given
by
measure,
or
where persons
are
said to
be
filled,
or
anointed
with
the
Spirit.
Perhaps,
I
say,
some
of
these scriptural
phrases
may be
better
explained concern-
ing
the
gifts,
graces, and influences
of
the
Holy
Spirit,
than
concerning the
divide
Agent
himself, who
is
true
God.
It
seems
to
be
much more
proper
to
say,
divine
influences
are
shed down,
poured
out,
and
given
to
men,
by laying
on
of
hands;
&c.
than to
say,
that
the
true
God
himself
is
shed down,
is
poured
out,
or
is
given
to
some
men, by
other
men's laying
hands upon them
;
or
than
to
say, we
are anointed
with
God, or
God
is
given,
or not
given, by
measure, &c
*.
This
has been the general
sense
of
all
our
divines in
this matter, and
I
thought
it
necessary to insert this pro-
position here,
that it
might more evidently appear,
that
though, in
some
scriptures, the term
Spirit,
and
Holy
There
are several
other scriptures
that
confirm this proposition.
It
is
evident,
that
it
was
the
Holy
Spirit by
which
Elijah
spoke
and acted, and
yetit
is
called
the
spiritf
Elijah,
that
is, his
gifts
;
2
King
ii.
9,
15.
It
is
the Holy
Spirit
by
which the Corinthians spake,
yet
it
is
called
the
spirit
of
the prophets, and these are
said to be subject to
the prophets
:
1
cor.
xiv. 52.
which
would
hardly
be said concerning
the divine Agent
or God
himself.
See Pool's
Annotations.
'
This
proposition
does
by no means
deny,
or
diminish the
truth
and glory
of the
Spirit of God dwelling eminently
in
the human
nature of
Christ,
-who
was
anointed and
filled
with
the
Spirit, and subordinately
in
every
true
christian:
For God himself
it
said to dwell
in his
people,
as
in
his
.temple, and
the
"
Spirit of
God
'dwells in
them,
and abides with
them
for
ever
;"
Joint
xiv.
16, 17.
For
"
he
that hath
not
the
Spirit
of Christ,
is
none of his ;"
Rom.
viii.
9.
But
this proposition
relieves those harsh
and
unwarrantable
expressions, of being anointed with
God, of
receiving a
double
portion
of God, of God being
shed, or poured
don
on
men
l!hich
would
be
the
plain consequence
of interpreting
such
scriptures
concerning the divine Agent himself,
or
the Holy Spirit,
who
is
true
God
:
and
for
that
reason our divines have
generally thought it proper and ne-
tessary
to
interpret
many
of
these expressions,
rather
concerning the gifts,
graces, and influences of
the
Spirit.