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 produced between  them  by  the  divine  will  a  third  being, the  Spirit  of  love,  the  Holy  Ghost. For there is this  difference  between  the  operations  of  the  human mind  and  the  divine,  that  the  image  and  the love of  an  object  produced  by  the  intellect  and  will of the  former  are  as  unsubstantial  and  transitory  as a  mirrored  reflection  or  a  passing  emotion,  but  not so in  the  latter,  for  whatever  falls  within  the  radius of the  Divinity,  though  it  be  in  a  measure  distinct from God,  must  still  be  substantially  God  HimseK. God, the  Son,  therefore,  is  the  intelligence  of  the Father, by  whom  and  in  whom,  as  in  an  exemplar, the Father  contemplates  His  own  infinite  perfections and their  numberless  imitations  in  the  universe  of creatures,  and  God  the  Holy  Ghost  is  the  love  that results from  this  contemplation,  and  reaching  out clasps the  entire  realm  of  beings  to  the  bosom  of their  Creator.

Brethren, it  was  precisely  because  the  Holy  Ghost proceeds from  the  Father  and  the  Son  and  by  them is sent  upon  Christ's  followers  that  that  controversy arose which  called  in  question  His  divinity,  and  for centuries rent  in  twain  the  Christian  Church. For, argued the  Arians,  as  the  person  sent,  such  as  a servant  or  soldier,  is  always  inferior  to  the  sender, his master  or  commander,  so  the  Holy  Ghost, though He  be  first  of  creatures,  is  still  but  a  creature and in  no  sense  equal  to  the  Father  and  the  Son. Nevertheless, Brethren,  the  Scriptures  emphatically assert that  the  Holy  Ghost  is  God. Only God  is everywhere,  and  "  whither,"  says  the  Psalmist,