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    rive you another comforter that shall abide with you for ever . " The circumstance of the Spirit being another advocate to the apostles in the room of Jesus , confines the promise of the spirit in this connexion , and under this view , exclusively to them , to

    whom alone that promise could apply , because they only were the companions of his life and mi n istry : " a little while I have been with you , I have been your advocate , I have guided , instructed , and defended you , and now I go to him that sent me , and ye shall see me no more ; but the advocate I will send to you in my stead shall abide with you for ever—of his instruction , support , and consolation , you shall never be deprived /' From this promise the disciples would have been naturally led to expect , that upon his departure from them another person like himself , possessed of equal or greater wisdom and powers would be raised up to assist them , and co-operate with

    them in fulfilling the ends of his mission , and the establishment of his kingdom ^ had he not more fully explained himself , which he does in the following words , and which explanation is referred to upon every mention of the Spirit , under the appellation of the comforter , see verse 25 of this chapter , chapter xv . 26 .

    xvi . 7 , 13 . Let us then attend a little to the explanation of this promise by our Lord . He tells his disciples in general ,, that by the comforter he meant the spirit of truth , it should be , rendered ,

    as it is in the original , not of truth , i n definitely ; but of the truth , that is of evangelical truth * j so he afterwards says of the comforter , " he will guide you into all the truth , for he shall take of mine , and shew it unto you * % all truth relating to

    the character and claims of Jesus , the nature of his gospel and kingdom ; all truth connected with the salvation and everlasting happiness of mankind , and which includes ia it-such divine illumination and inspiration in the things of God , accompanied with such miraculous powers as should give the most

    indubitable evidence that their testimony was the testimony of God , and deserving of the unreserved faith and confidence of mankind . Thus , when this promise had its accomplishment in the gift of the Holy Spirit , on the day of Pentecost , they were furnished with a mouth and wisdom which all their adversaries were unable to gainsay or resist , and their preachipg was in the demonstration of the spirit and of power , that our faith might

    stand not in the wisdom of man , but in the power of God . The word < &vbvijl& , spirit , is of the neuter gender , and so are all the pronouns in this verse , which are all in construction with H , and not with 3 ra ( xzKXwros , comforter \ and the passage should * free £ iowth * s Grammar .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 83, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/27/