utterly under the belief of false gods as to have lost the idea of the one God from whom all things proceed.[1]
If, however, we accept the testimony of the Christian Scriptures, we shall conclude that God is not only Unity, but Trinity in Unity. They tell us of a Father who reveals Himself through the Son and by the Holy Spirit. The writers of the New Testament employ language concerning the Son and the Holy Spirit which is intelligible only on the supposition that each of these Persons is, equally with the Father, Very and Eternal God. The Holy Scriptures set before us the history of those events in the development of the human race, and in the dealings of Almighty God with His creatures, in which He has revealed and declared His own Name and Nature and Attributes. The revelation of the Holy Ghost was, so to speak, the last word in the series of disclosures. It completed the revelation of the doctine of the Holy Trinity.
For many years there has been a wide–spread feeling in the Church that the doctrine of the Holy Ghost does not hold its due place either in
- ↑ "Gentes non usque adeo ad falsos deos esse delapsas, ut opinonem amitterent unius veri Dei, ex quo est omnis qualiscunque natura." S. August. C. Faust. 1. 20, n. 19, Cf. Hooker, 1. c.
