ut it also declares His Godhead--partly
because the words, _I believe in God_, belong to all three paragraphs
of it; and partly by the words, _his only Son_. See S. John i. 1-4,
14, 18; 1 S. John i. 3; S. Matth. xvi. 16. The Nicene Creed was
prepared at a time when His Perfect Manhood was universally believed,
but some thought that He was not God. It is therefore much fuller in
the statement of His Godhead.

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III. What the Bible says of the Holy Ghost.

The third paragraph of this Creed is a summary of the teaching of the
Bible concerning Him whom we often call the third Person of the
Godhead--whom Jesus described as the Comforter (S. John xiv.-xvi.). He
there promised to His disciples the presence with them of One, who
should be closer to them than He had Himself been, xvi. 7: xiv. 16, 17:
who should unite them more closely to Himself, xiv. 18, 23: who should
teach them, and help them to remember His words, xiv. 26: who should
testify of Him, xv. 26: and guide them into all truth, xvi. 13: when
they should be accused and persecuted, the Holy Ghost would guide their
speech, S. Matth. x. 19, 20: S. Mark xiii. 11: S. Luke xii. 11, 12:
xxi. 14, 15.

Consistently with these promises we find all good impulses, thoughts,
and actions, in man, ascribed to the Holy Ghost--Comfort, Acts ix. 31:
Joy, Rom. xiv. 17: Baptism, S. Matth. iii. 11: 1 Cor. xii. 13:
Fellowship, Phil. ii. 1: Power, Acts i. 8: Sanctification, Rom. xv. 16:
Teaching, 1 Cor. ii. 13: xii. 3: Resolution, S. Luke iv. 1: Acts xv.
28: Vocation, xiii. 2, 4: xx. 28: He is ranked with the Father and the
Son, S. Matth. xxviii. 19: Eph. iv. 4-6: 2 Cor. xiii. 14.

His Presence is imparted through the Laying on of Hands, Acts viii. 15,
17: xix. 6: ix. 17: and before it, x. 44, in the exceptional case of
Cornelius. Thus, individually we are temples of the Holy Ghost, 1 Cor.
vi. 19.

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But further, the Holy Ghost unites us in one Body--the Church, Eph. iv.
2-4: wherein the work of each is allotted by Him who in 1 Cor. xii. 28
is called God, and in _vv._ 4-11 is called the Spirit, and in _v._ 3,
the Holy Ghost. By virtue of this, the Church is Holy, 1 Cor. iii. 16,
17, even though individual members are unworthy. And this Church was
to be One for all the world, Acts i. 8, S. Matth. xxviii. 19, 20: 1
Cor. i. 2: Eph. i. 22, 23: iii. 9, 10: S. John xvii. 20, 21. Thus it
is the Holy Catholick Church. Catholick=Universal, for-the-whole.
Also the Holy