say it reverently) is to introduce you to my Friend, the Holy Spirit. CHAPTER II. THE DEITY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. In the preceding chapter we have seen clearly that the Holy Spirit is a Person. But what sort of a Person is He? Is He a finite person or an infinite person? Is He God? This question also is plainly answered in the Bible. There are in the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments five distinct and decisive lines of proof of the Deity of the Holy Spirit. I. _Each of the four distinctively Divine attributes is ascribed to the Holy Spirit._ What are the distinctively Divine attributes? Eternity, omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence. All of these are ascribed to the Holy Spirit in the Bible. We find _eternity_ ascribed to the Holy Spirit in Heb. ix. 14, “How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the _eternal_ Spirit offered Himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?” _Omnipresence_ is ascribed to the Holy Spirit in Ps. cxxxix. 7-10, “Whither shall I go from Thy Spirit? or whither shall I flee from Thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, Thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea; even there shall Thy hand lead me, and Thy right hand shall hold me.” _Omniscience_ is ascribed to the Holy Spirit in several passages. For example, we read in 1 Cor. ii. 10, 11, “But God hath revealed them unto us by His Spirit: for the Spirit _searcheth all things_, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? _Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God._” Again in John xiv. 26, “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.” Still further we read in John xvi. 12, 13, R. V., “I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of truth is come, He shall _guide you into all the truth_: for He shall not speak from Himself; but what things soever He shall hear, these shall He speak: and He shall declare unto you the things that are to come.” We find _omnipotence_ ascribed to the Holy Spirit in Luke i. 35, “And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the _power of the Highest_ shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.” II. _Three distinctively Divine works are ascribed to the Holy Spirit._