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    have been rendered accordingly > the spirit of the truth , not whom , but which the world cannot receive , because it seeth it not ; neither knoweth it ; but ye know it > for it dwelleth with you , and shall be in you . This explanation of our Lord is admirably

    calculated to counteract the idea which the personal noun , comforter * would otherwise suggest ; and to shew that that term was used in order to personify that which in reality had no proper personality . The comforter he promised them was so far from being a proper person , that it was to be an internal principle—it dwelleth with you , and shall be in you . It was to be an invisible principle , which the world could not see , and consequently could not deprive them of j and when the

    promised spirit was given we are told , that * suddenly there came a sound from heaven , as of a rushing mighty wind , and it filled all the house where they were sitting , arid they were all filled with the'Holy Ghost , '' There is one other observation necessary to be made on this passage , that is , on the reason why it is said the world cannot receive the Holy Spirit , a reason which would be universal in

    its application , and preclude the possibility of its reception The word x < zpc , Cav * y rendered receive , signifies to take by forcey to apprehend , seize , see Mat . xxi . 35 , 39 . Mark xii . 3 , 8 .

    Luke , ix . 39 . 1 Cor . x , 13 . It is as if Jesus had said , ' I shall be seized and crucified and slain , but the comforter , the spirit of truth whom the Father will send in my name cannot be taken from you , thexvorld cannot seize it" and the reason why

    they cannot seize it is forcible and pertinent , because to them it would be invisible and unknown , " because it seeth it not , neither knoweth it , but ye know it , for it dwelieth or abideth with you , and shall be in you . " Upon the whole , it is plain that the doctrine of the proper personality of the Holy Spirit , which is supposed to receive its ruain support from the personal noun comforter , and the personal pronouns in construction with it , in this discourse of our

    Lord , is completely subverted by the explanation he has himself given of his meaning , and that the attempts to support that doctrine from this connexion must arise from the grossest inattention , or the most inveterate prejudice in favour of a parties lar svsterrj .

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    ' S EXPLANATION OF CHRISTS BEING MADE SIN . From the Paper * of the late Rev . Newcome Cqppc . ^ Continuedfrom page 30 . ] Ik the book of Exodus xxii . 9 . " The cause of both parties shall come before the judges , and whom the judges shall make

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    84 , Christ ' s being made Sin .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1806, page 84, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1721/page/28/