the worl<I'• hate by the mission of the Com- Greeks, iu 1mcient timea, never limited their forter. 'rl1is great miseion is mid to be hie statement to "prooet>dlng from the Father own. Whenaoever the Paraolete of whom I onlt; '' nor did they object to add, "through ha~e spoken 1ha.ll have oome, whom I will or y the Son ; " but it is probable that send to you from (the Bide ot; ,rapa) the Augustine and the Western Churoh, nnd Father, the Spirit of the truth, whioh pro- the liturgical forms thnt arose in it, ap- oeedeth from (,rap,\) the P'atber, be (i,c,,vos) proach a little more closely to the renlity eha.ll bear witn- oonoerning me, and you and quality of him who Hid, "I and my al10 bear witne11 beoaue ye are with me Father a.re one" in this respeot, tho.t the from the beginning of thc> Me•sianio work Spirit procecdeth from the Father ond Son1 (a,r' 6/>xiis, not ,., apxii). This i• the ~ t when he comes into human hoort.a anCl ten on whioh the Western Church e.nd the testifies of Christ. There aro thoso (Beza, Greeks have alike relied for their doctrine Luthardt, Alford, Meyer) who urge that concerning the "prooeeeion of the Spirit," those pass&gea do not bear nt all upon the in- the timeless, pre-mundane rele.tione among ternal relations of the Godhead, but simply the Personalities of the Godhead. The refer to the temporal mission of the Holy expression lKTopd,n-11.1 only oooure in this Spiri~ "The words," says Luthardt, "must place, and from it lrropdJ1T1S bC'Cll.me the be understood historically, not metaphysi- ecclesi!U!tie&l term for the relation which ce.lly," and much m&y be so.id in favour of the Holy Spirit suste.ine to the Father, jnet this "view. If this verse does not furnish e.s -yo..,/<T" WBB the especio.l term to denote the basis of an argument, there is no other the peculie.rity of the Son, and just BB which oon be advanced to establish the view ...,,.,.,..,j,,.,a, the condition of unbegottenness either of tho Ea.stern or Westem Church. and paternity was that need to denote the Tho witness of the Para.elate is so.id here to Father's own hypostatic dil!tinction. The cover the gravest diffioulties o.nd provide the Holy Spirit is ever proceeding, issuing forth riohest consolations. If the Lord intended from, sent by the Father on his work of to tee.eh the fundamental nature of the Holy Divine self-ma.nifest.ation and Divine activity Spirit, the literal statement would be a in the universe. Of this there ca.n be no powerful defence of the Greek dootrine; but question, and the Nioene symbol originally if the passage here speaks of the official expressed it without ampli.fica.tion, and the work and temporal mission, the words have Greeks founded upon it their conception of no direct bearing upon that doctrine. The the 'I'rinity. The relation of the Son and denial of the fil,wque has tho logical tendenoy Spirit io the Father were believed t.o be to make the Spirit and Bon co-ordinate and C(KIMinat.e ; and, though both were of the subordinate emanations of the Father, and so same eternal substanoo, yet both were equal to go back to the mone.rohia.nism from which to the Father. But the Western Church in the Church esca.ped at Nicma. (See Pearson aft.er-years - notwithstanding the tremen- on the Creed. a.rt. viii. ; ' Diot. Ohristian dons anathemas a.ga.inBt all alteration which Biography,' a.rt. "Holy Ghost;" Smee.ton, guarded the Nicene and Chalcedonia.n for- ' Doctrine of the Holy Spirit;' Hagenba.ch, mule-felt that ihe whole truth concerning • History of Christian Doctrines.') The the Divinity of the Son was concea.led, if supernatural power of the Holy Spirit will the idea we.s not also oonveyed which our counteract the hatred in the world by Lord utters side by side with the ltcropdJETa., regenerating individuals within it. More .,,ap;, -roii Il4Tpos in this verse. Christ says, than that, ea.id Christ, he (J,ci,vos) will hea.r "I will send him wapa TOU n«-rpos," and witness to me, in the Divine strength and ibis must he compared with (eh. xiv. 26), courage which he will give to you, in the "whom the Father willB8Ild in my Name;" new and corrective ideas which he will and the Le.tirui, to express this thought, supply, in the great works seen to be mine, added jilioq_ue to the phrase, " prooeed.ing which you will have grace to initiate (see from the Father," and cla.i.med our Lord Actsi8; ii.; iv.31; v.32,-passe.geswhere as equally the Souroe of the Divine Spirit I.he "Acts of the AposUes" a.re seen to be with the Father, eo that it rnns, " pro- '' Acts of the Risen Jesus"); and ye al,o ceeding from the Father and the Son." bear tDitna,,et.o. Your own experience of me In the endless dil!cDBBiona the.t arose, the from the commencement of my ministry will two Churches probably meant to effect the give you a class of testimony which will 11&1De thing, viz. t.o affirm the glory and leave an indelible impression on the heart perfect Deity of the Lord Chriat. The of the world.
HOMILETICS. Vere. 1--8.-27,.e vine tu&d the lJf'anchea. Thie discourse of our Lord had relation to the new position of thl! disciples that would be created by hi~ depart1ue, lltt. xv. l•-27.] 'fHE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO S'1'. JOHN. 2'1'T