Moreover, to witness, or testify, is a personal character; especially when the testimony is not merely objective, as when Job calls his _wrinkles and his leanness a witness_ against him, Job xvi. 8. But when there is a formal testimony given, he that gives it is, according to our common way of speaking, generally considered as a person; and thus the Holy Ghost is described, Acts v. 32. _We are his witnesses of these things, and so is the Holy Ghost, whom God has given to them that obey him._ Here the Holy Ghost’s being a witness is as much a personal character, as their being witnesses; and, Acts xx. 23. it is said, _The Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, that bonds and afflictions abide me_. Again, dwelling is a personal character; no one ever supposes that any thing that is in a house dwells there, excepting persons; but the Holy Ghost is said to dwell in believers, John xiv. 17. and alluding hereto, as also connoting his divine personality, it is said, 1 Cor. vi. 19. _Your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost_; as a house is the dwelling-place of a person, so a temple is the dwelling-place of a divine person. Again, to send any one is a personal character; but this is attributed to the Holy Ghost, Acts xiii. 4. _The apostles being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed._ Again, acting with a sovereign will and pleasure is what belongs only to a person; but this is applied to the Holy Ghost, Acts xv. 28. _It seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us._ Again, prohibiting, or forbidding, a person to act, is a personal character; but this is applied to the Holy Ghost, Acts xvi. 6. _The apostles were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia._ Again, to constitute, or appoint, any one to execute an office is a personal character; but this the Holy Ghost is said to do, Acts xx. 28. he is said to have _made them overseers_. There are several other personal works and characters, which might have been mentioned; but these are, I humbly conceive, sufficient to prove the thing intended, that the Holy Ghost is a person. I have no more than mentioned the scriptures, which contain these personal characters, because I shall have occasion under a following head, to refer to some of them for the proof of his deity.[93]