And yet, He is a distinct _Person_: for, to quote a decisive text,[464] Christ prays the Father to send His disciples _another_ Comforter when He goes away; thus showing that the Holy Spirit is a different Person, both from the Father and the Son. And elsewhere we are told that the Spirit _makes intercession for us_, which again shows that He must be a different Person from the Father, with Whom He intercedes.[465] While in another passage blasphemy against the Holy Ghost is said to be the worst of all sins;[466] which shows both that He is a _Person_, or He could not be blasphemed; and that He is _God_, or blasphemy against God would be a greater sin. [Footnote 464: John 14. 16, 26; 15. 26.] [Footnote 465: Rom. 8. 26.] [Footnote 466: Matt. 12. 31, 32; Mark 3. 28, 29.] No doubt the actual word _Person_ is not applied to the Holy Spirit in the New Testament, just as it is not applied to either the Father or the Son, but it cannot be thought inappropriate, provided it is not taken in a literal, or human sense. For the relations between Them closely _resemble_ those between human persons, as They love one another, speak to one another, and use the personal pronouns I, Thou, He, and We. (3.) _Three Divine Persons and yet but One God._ It is clear, then, from the New Testament, that the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are all Persons, and all Divine; and yet the fact of there being but one God is at times plainly asserted.[467] Now the only means of reconciling all this is by the doctrine of the Trinity in Unity. And this is plainly hinted at in the New Testament itself, for the Three Persons are often closely associated together, as for instance in the text just alluded to, where _Christ_ prays _the Father_ to give His disciples _another Comforter_. [Footnote 467: Mark 12. 29; 1 Cor. 8. 4.] Quite naturally, then, just before His Ascension, Christ completed this earlier teaching by finally, and for ever, joining the Three Persons together, when He commanded Christians to be baptized _into the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost_.[468] And this alone is sufficient to prove the doctrine, for it shows that there are _Three_ distinct Persons, and that each is _Divine_, for who but God could be thus associated with God? While the expression into the _name_ and not _names_, implies a unity in this Trinity. [Footnote 468: Matt. 28. 19.]