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the Socinians and the Jews, that the Holy Ghost is not an energy, operation, quality or power, but a person, a spiritual and intellectual subsistence (p)."

It may indeed be observed in answer to the objection founded on the text, " for God giveth not the Spirit by measure unto him (q)," that this passage is evidently designed to prove the superiority of Christ to the antient prophets, who spake by the Spirit of God-the Spirit of Christ--the Holy Ghost-and can in no wise be brought as an argument against the personality of the Holy Spirit. It is an allusion to the fact, which John the Baptist had before declared, that he saw the Spirit of God descend and remain upon Jesus to distinguish him as the Messiah-the Son of God-(r)from the prophets, who were only occasionally favoured by his influence. But when we consider the mysterious union of the three persons in one God, which certainly implies unity of will and power, it appears to me we may safely grant that expressions of this sort are sometimes used to signify an attribute, an energy, operation, quality, or power of God, without injury to the doctrine

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(p) Veneer, Exp. of this Art. (q) John, c. 3. v. 34. (r) John, c. 3. v. 32, &c.

we maintain, which is clearly established by so many passages in Scripture.

The earliest controversy upon the subject of this article was that occasioned by Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople, in the middle of the fourth century, who denied the divinity of the Holy Ghost, and was on that account deposed from his bishopric.

ARTICLE THE SIXTH.

Of the Sufficiency of Holy Scripture for

HOLY

Salvation.

ALL THINGS

SCRIPTURE CONTAIN ETH NECESSARY TO SALVATION: SO THAT WHATSOEVER IS NOT READ THEREIN, NOR MAY BE PROVED THEREBY, IS NOT TO BE REQUIRED OF ANY MAN, THAT IT SHOULD BE BELIEVED AS AN ARTICLE OF THE FAITH, OR BE THOUGHT REQUISITE OR NECESSARY ΤΟ

SALVATION. IN THE NAME OF THE HOLY SCRIPTURE WE DO

UNDERSTAND THOSE

CANONICAL BOOKS OF THE OLD AND NEW

TESTAMENT, OF WHOSE AUTHORITY WAS NEVER ANY DOUBT IN THE CHURCH.

OF THE NAMES AND NUMBER OF THE CANONICAL BOOKS.

GENESIS

EXODUS

LEVITICUS

NUMBERS

DEUTERONOMY

JOSHUA

JUDGES

RUTH

THE FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL

THE

THE SECOND BOOK OF SAMUEL

THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS

THE SECOND BOOK OF KINGS

THE FIRST BOOK OF CHRONICLES

THE SECOND BOOK OF CHRONICLES

THE FIRST BOOK OF ESDRAS

THE SECOND BOOK OF ESDRAS

THE BOOK OF ESTHER

THE BOOK OF JOB

THE PSALMS

THE PROVERBS

ECCLESIASTES, OR PREACHER

CANTICA, OR SONG OF SOLOMON

FOUR PROPHETS THE GREATER

TWELVE PROPHETS THE LESS,

AND THE OTHER BOOKS, (AS HIEROME SAITH)

THE CHURCH DOTH READ FOR EXAMPLE OF LIFE AND INSTRUCTION OF MANNERS; BUT YET IT DOTH NOT APPLY THEM TO ESTABLISH ANY DOCTRINE. SUCH ARE THESE

FOLLOWING:

THE THIRD BOOK OF ESDRAS

THE FOURTH BOOK OF ESDRAS

THE BOOK OF TOBIAS

THE BOOK OF JUDITH

THE REST OF THE BOOK OF ESTHER

THE BOOK OF WISDOM

JESUS THE SON OF SIRACH

BARUCH THE PROPHET

THE

THE SONG OF THE THREE CHILDREN

THE HISTORY OF SUSANNAH

OF BEL AND THE DRAGON

THE PRAYER OF MANASSES

THE FIRST BOOK OF MACCABEES

THE SECOND BOOK OF MACCABEES.

ALL THE BOOKS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AS THEY ARE COMMONLY RECEIVED, WE DO RECEIVE, AND ACCOUNT THEM CANONICAL.

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WE have seen that the first five articles relate to the foundation of all religion, the existence of a God, and to the characteristic doctrines of the Christian Religion, concerning the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. The next point to be settled is the rule of our faith and practice; this is a subject upon which there is a material difference between the church of Rome and the church of England, and to that difference this article is directed.

The divine Inspiration of the Holy Scriptures, and consequently their truth and obligation, is allowed both by papists and by the members of our church but the papists assert that the books of the New Testament do not contain the whole rule of a Christian's faith and practice; they believe that the Apostles orally delivered many doctrines and precepts of the highest

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