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    8 « ' That spirit is essential to personality . ' Every intelligent agerit 9 therefore , every person , must necessarily have his own proper spirit . This is essential to his very existence ; it is his * life , his energy * that by means of which he Is possessed of all his powers

    of understanding , reflection and action 5 it is " the breath of life / ' Without which he would cease to be a person , One person ? then * cannot possibly be the spirit of another person ; nor can the spirit of a * person be a person distinct from him whose spirit it is , unless

    every person is in fact tirfb persons . If then the Holy Spirit be the Spirit of God , i . e . the spirit of a person , the Spirit of the Father * as it is also denominated ,, it cannot have any personality distinct from that of the Father . As spirit is essential to personality , if the Holy Spirit were a person , he

    must also have his own proper spirit , and , consequently , there must be another Divine person in the Godhead , the Spirit of the Holy Spirit , and if that also were a person , he too must have his own proper spirit , and so we might go on adding persons to the Godhead ad infinitum .

    Having made these observations in order to ascertain the meaning of the term Spirit , and the sense in which the Scriptures speak of it as standing in relation to the Divine Being ; we now proceed to examine the arguments by which Mr . Wardlnw

    endeavours to prove that the Spirit is a proper person , another person distinct from him whose spirit it is said to be * Before we enter on the subject it may be proper to observe , that on the Trinitarian scheme , when the Holy Spirit is denominated the Spirit of God , the term God cannot mean the

    whole Godhead , consisting of three Divine persons , for then the spirit must be the spirit of itself , as much so as it is the spirit of either of the other of the Divine persons . The term God , therefore * in this connexion * must be confined to the person of the Father * JOHN MARS 0 M . M g iaw .. —

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    Islington , not much morje than a him * dred | yards frotn my own habitation , I purchased the identical qiiarto manuscript copy oi Dr . Dodorige ' s principal work , neatly bound and lettered * entitled , " Lectures on Pneumatology ^

    Ethics and Theology , ** in ten parts * with particular references to the most considerable authors on these subjects ,, This volume he drew up with consummate care for his pupils ; and its posthumous publication by the Rev « and learned Mr . Clark , of

    Birmingham , established his already justly-acquired fame as a tutor of young men training up for ^ the Christian ministry It has been since augmented in size and value by the notes of Dr . Andrew Kippis , and still more recently by the illustrations of Messrs . Parsons and

    Williams , in tlieir well-known edition of Dr . DoddHdge ' s Works . The manuscript is in short-hand , except proper names and technical phrases , which are written at full

    length . The title-page is spread out in small capitals ^ with the date at the bottom , Northampton , 1740 . The neatness of the whole volume * distributed into its several lectures- with

    opposite blank pages for additional remarks , and ruled with red ink , is inimitable 1 A transcript of the author ' s intelligent and pure mind , such a literary relic cannot fail to be held in estimation . Little did the good Doctor imagine when he was passing

    as he frequently did through Islington , in his way from Northampton to the metropolis , that the original copy of his favourite work , over the pages of which lie bad passed many an hour by tlhe pale light of the midnight

    lamp ,, would lie exposed to sale on a common stall 9 near a century afterwards , in this same village , and fall into the hands of a Christian minister who , though mot one of his own denomination , has been through life the admirer of his learning , his genius

    and his piety ! Acquainted with the short-hand which Dr . Doddridge wroteP and which was always taught his pupils

    upon their , first entrance into hia academy , I have amused myself by comparing the original copy of his Lectures' with-Hie last printed edition . And I was pleased to remark the strict coincidence of the one with the other ^ excepting the additions made

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    Islington , Silt , December Q 1817-HAVE lately obtained a literary I curiosity * with an account of which the young theological reader may be gratified * From off an old stall Uk

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1818, page 37, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2472/page/37/