another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love . . . and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

But, besides this, the gospel clearly reveals to us what in the law is but darkly intimated, namely, that the unity of the Godhead is not one of poverty or dreary isolation; but that, as the perfection of God consists in its matchless unity, so it also consists in a richness and self-sufficiency of life, rendering God absolutely independent of the world as to His own happiness and glory, and unfolding, in three blessed Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost; and that these three blessed Persons, or Hypostases, who, in the absolute unity of their Godhead, have created the universe with all it contains, both visible and invisible, are also the efficient cause of the salvation of believing man from Satan, sin, and death.

This tri-partite existence of divine life, or this threeness of Persons in the one Godhead, which Christian divines have called the Trinity is undoubtedly revealed in the Gospels in those passages where either to the Son or to the Holy Ghost divine attributes are ascribed, or where the three blessed Persons are expressly mentioned, as e. g. respecting the Son, in John i. 1, 'In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was

God' (see vv. 14-17); and John v. 20-3, 'For the Father loveth the Son, and showeth Him all things that himself doeth: and greater works than these will he show him, that ye may marvel. For as the Father raiseth the dead and quickeneth them, even so the Son also quickeneth whom He will. For neither doth the Father judge any man, but he hath given all judgement unto the Son; that all may honour the Son, even as they honour the Father. He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father which sent Him.' The Holy Spirit is sometimes spoken of as sent to the believers by the Father, as e.g. in John xiv. 26, 'The Comforter, even the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I said unto you' (comp. also John xiv. 16; Acts xv. 8; Gal. iv. 6); and sometimes as sent by the Son, e.g. Acts ii. 32-3, 'This Jesus did God raise up, whereof we all are witnesses. Being therefore by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, He hath poured forth this, which ye see and hear.' (See also John xv. 26; xvi. 7; xx. 22.) Of this Holy Spirit it is written in 1 Cor. ii. 10-11, that 'The Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For who among men knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man, which is in him? even so the things of God none knoweth, save the Spirit