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136 JESUS IS COMING.
We answer The Holy Spirit is a distinct person, not to
be confounded with the person of Christ. The Savior ex-
pressly said: "I will pray the Father and He shall give
you another comforter" (John 14:16), and if it be another,
it cannot be Himself. He, the Holy Spirit, came according
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to the promises, it is entirely inconsistent to con-
found this event with Christ's return, which latter is in
accordance with other promises, that He should Himself
come again. They are two events, as distinct as the births
of Moses and John.
It is true that Christ is spiritually with, or in, believ-
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ers, it is just as true that He always has been,
and that in this sense He has never' left them, for He
said: "Lo! I am with you alway," Mat. 28:20. Mark
the language: "I AM with you alway." He was with them
during those days of prayer previous to the day of Pente-
cost, and He has been with His people all the time. But
suddenly the (Parakleetos) Comforter came, another per-
son and for a special and glorious purpose. It is, therefore,
conclusive, that this coming of the Holy Spirit is a mani-
festation of the Divine presence, entirely different from,
and superadded to, the spiritual presence of Christ, which
latter, according to His own language, has never been with-
drawn from His people. He never went away spiritually,
but He did go bodily and visibly, and in like manner shall
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He return.
(67) John 14:16. And I will and make our abode with him.
pray the Father, and he shall JQ^Q 17:23. I In them, and
give you another Comforter, that thou in me, that they may be
he may abide with you for ever ; made per fect in one ; and that
26. But the Comforter, which the world may know that thou
is the Holy Ghost, whom the hast sent me, and hast loved
father will send in my name, them, as thou hast loved me.
he shall teach you all things, (jaj, 4 : ig. My little children,
and bring all things to your re-
of Whom i travail in birth again
membrance, whatsoever I have unti i Christ be formed in you.
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A , ^ (69) Acts 1:11. Which also
Also 15:26 and 16:7. Ye men Galilee, why
S aid, of
(68) John 14:23. Jesus an- stand ye gazing up into heavea?
swered and said unto him, If a this same Jesus, which is taken
man love me, he will keep my up from you into heaven, shall
words : and my Father will love so come in like manner as ye
him, and we will come unto hiu, have seen him go into heaven.