God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this which ye both see and hearV In every thing which from that period the Holy Ghost enabled the Apostles to do and teach, he acted as the deputy of Christ, not himself originating what he revealed, or speaking it of himself, but declaring to them what Christ himself had heard and received from the Father d, and what he, the Holy Spirit, had heard and received from Christ. Our Lord himself says, in one place, — " The words that I speak unto you, I speak not of myself; but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works6 :" and again, " The word which ye hear, is not mine, but the Father's who sent mef:" and then afterwards, respecting the Holy Spirit, he says, " When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth : for he shall not speak of himself ; but, whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak ; and he will shew you things to come. He shall glo- rify me : for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you8."
But there is a yet further reason for the Holy Spirit being called " the Spirit of Christ," viz. that to him was delegated the express office of glorifying Christ. Our Lord, as you have just heard, said, " He shall glorify me ; for he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you." Accordingly we find, that all the mi- racles which were wrought by the Apostles for the confirming of the doctrines which they preached, were wrought by the agency of the Holy Ghost11, and that, too, for the express purpose of bearing witness to Christ as the true Messiah1. It was "that one and the self-same Spirit who wrought all in allk." The dif- ferent graces also which were exercised by the saints for the honouring of Christ, were formed in them by this same divine Agent ; on which account they are called " the fruits of the Spirit1." In fact, as Christ
c Acts ii. 33. d John xvi. 13. e John xiv. 10. f Johnxiv. 24. 8 John xvi. 13 — \o.
h Heb. ii, 4. and xiv. 3. ' John xv. 26.
k 1 Cor. xii. 7 — 11. ' Gal. v. 22.