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Rh again —"Believe also in the Holy Spirit, and think of Him, as thou hast received concerning the and the . Learn that this  is one, indivisible, with various powers; working manifold gifts, but Himself not divided,—who operated through the law and the prophets,—who now also sealeth thy soul at the time of Baptism,—of whose holiness all reasonable nature hath received." Or, again, St. Athanasius, (although it is almost doing injustice to these Fathers, to give such brief extracts in a foreign tongue; and be it remembered, that they are produced for one object only,—to show that they, when arguing from the baptismal words, did it not in our cold and disputatious way, but as men, who were thereby reminded of the blessings which they had received in holy Baptism), St. Athanasius, then, thus argues :—"The sum of our faith He made to point to this, for He bade that We should be baptized not into the name of One not-made, and one made, of One Uncreate, and of a creature, but into the name of the, and , and the . For thus, being perfected, we also are made truly sons; and when we pronounce the name of the , we learn also from that name the also, who is in the ." And again —"For, not as if He wanted any thing, but as the , founded the earth by His own Wisdom, and made all things by the , who is from Himself, and establisheth the holy washing in the . For where the is, there is the  also; as where the light is, there also is the radiance: and as what the  doeth. He doeth by the , as the  Himself saith (John v. 19.); so when Baptism is given, whom the  baptizeth, him the  baptizeth; and whom the  baptizeth, he by the  is perfected." And yet again :—"Moreover, holy Baptism, wherein the whole constitution of our faith centres, is not given in the name of the, but of the , and ."