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62 shall take of mine, and show it unto you." Jno. xvi. 7-15.

"These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you; but the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you."* Jno. xiv. 26.

* This passage has been wrested, to prove that the Spirit, independently of his revelation by the Scriptures, would teach mankind all things needful for their salvation; but the reader will observe how evidently this passage relates to the Apostles themselves, as a promise to them, that they should, by divine inspiration, be qualified for the work, of conveying to mankind, the knowledge of the things they had immediately received from the mouth of the Lord Jesus; and also what should be further revealed to them by the.

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"When the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me: and ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me from the beginning.". Jno. xv. 26, 27.

"The God of our fathers raised up Jesus,

whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour, for to give repentance to Israel, and forgiveness of sins; and we are his witnesses of these things; and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him." Acts, v. 30-32.

And how often we find, that when any one is described as being full of the Holy Ghost, the inspired