Questions on Chapter 4.

connected with God the Father, in the most solemn forms of religious worship, how can we contemplate the subject without seeing therein the most direct encouragement to idolatry. Surely the supreme majesty and exalted associations which we have just seen ascribed to the Holy Spirit, attest his proper divinity.

Thus have we shown that the exalted titles, attributes, works, and honors, ascribed to the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures, demonstrate his real and Supreme Godhead. Whereas, if we deny the Godhead of the Holy Spirit, we are reduced to the glaring absurdity of saying that the highest titles, the supreme attributes, the most exalted works, and the most sacred honors of the Deity himself, are, in the Scriptures; most explicitly and repeatedly ascribed to a mere abstract attribute, emanation, energy, or influence, possessing no personal or conscious existence whatever; and that, too, in the volume expressly designed to destroy every species of idolatry. Surely it must be plain, that to deify an influence, or any thing else besides the great and eternal Being, is as really idolatry as to bow down before stocks and stones, or “birds, and beasts, and creeping things.” But, according to the Bible, God is a Spirit,” and that Holy Spirit is God. QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 4.

QUESTION 1. What is the Hebrew word in the Old Testament, and the Greek word in the New Testament, rendered Spirit? and what do they mean?

2. What has been the opinion of Arians, Socinians, etc., concerning the nature of the Holy Spirit?

3. What the view of Trinitarians, and the orthodox generally?

4. What do we mean by the personality of the Holy Spirit?

5. From what three different sources are the proofs of the Holy Spirit’s personality deduced?

6. What is the evidence from the appellations of the Holy Spirit?

7. The actions? The honors?

8. From what four different sources are the proofs of the Deity of the Holy Spirit derived?

9. What is the evidence that the Holy Spirit is called God?

10. The Lord of hosts?

11. What divine attributes are ascribed to the Holy Spirit?

12. What is the evidence of his omniscience?

13. Omnipotence?

14. Omnipresence?

15. What exalted works are ascribed to the Holy Spirit?

16. What is the evidence that creation is ascribed to him?

17. Preservation?

18. Inspiration of the prophets?

19. What divine honors are ascribed to him?

20. What is the evidence of his supreme majesty?

21. What exalted associations are ascribed to him?

22. To what glaring absurdity are we reduced, if we deny the supreme Divinity of the Holy Spirit?