The Paraclete

by William Robinson Clark

The Paraclete
🙣○🙠
PROFESSOR CLARK

The Slocum Lectures, 1899

THE PARACLETE

THE PARACLETE

A SERIES OF DISCOURSES ON THE PERSON
AND WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

BY
WILLIAM CLARK
M.A., LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S.C.
Professor of Philosophy in Trinity University, Toronto.

THE SLOCUM LECTURES 1899, DELIVERED AT
THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

TORONTO
GEORGE N. MORANG & COMPANY LIMITED
1900

Entered according to Act of Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine, by George N. Morang & Company, limited, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture.

PREFACE.

 

---

 

Whatever may be the defects of this volume, it has not been undertaken without a deep sense of the greatness of its subject, nor yet without earnest and protracted study. The writer may claim to have made himself acquainted with all the principal treatises on the Holy Spirit, both ancient and modern; and he puts forth his own contribution to the subject in the hope that there may be found in it some evidence of independent thought and work.

Twelve years ago the writer was appointed by Bishop Harris, a most distinguished member of a great Episcopate, to deliver the second series of Baldwin Lectures, the first having been given by the beloved Dr. Cleveland Coxe, Bishop of Western New York. It is with a deep sense of the high honor again conferred upon him that he has undertaken this work entrusted to him by the revered and accomplished successor of Bishop Harris, the Right Reverend Dr. Davies.

William Clark.

Trinity College, Toronto,
Advent, 1899.

CONTENTS.

 

---

 

The Holy Ghost very God ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

3

 

LECTURE II.

The Promise of the Father ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

36

 

LECTURE III.

The Fashioner of the Second Adam ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

65

 

LECTURE IV.

The Creator of the Church ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

90

 

LECTURE V.

The Teacher of the Church ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

119

 

LECTURE VI.

The Life-Giver ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

145

 

LECTURE VII.

The Advocate ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

36

 

LECTURE VIII.

The Inner Witness ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

207

THE
CHARLOTTE WOOD SLOCUM
LECTURES.

 

---

 

The Charlotte Wood Slocum lectureship on "Christian Evidences" was endowed in 1890 by the lamented lady whose name it bears, the wife of Elliott T. Slocum, Esq., of Detroit, in grateful memory of the life and labours of the Right. Rev. Samuel Smith Harris, D.D., LL.D., the second Bishop of Michigan. Mrs. Slocum departed this life in Dresden, 6th June, 1891. Bishop Harris—to quote his own words—"moved by the importance of bringing all practical Christian influences to bear upon the great body of students annually assembled at the University of Michigan, undertook to promote and set in operation a plan of Christian work at said University, and collected contributions for that purpose, of which plan the following outline is here given, that is to say:

To erect a building or hall near the University in which there should be cheerful parlours, a well–equipped reading–room, and a lecture–room, where the lectures hereinafter mentioned might be given;

To endow a Lectureship similar to the Bampton Lectureship in England, for the establishment and defense of Christian truth, the lectures on such foundation to be delivered at Ann Arbor by a learned clergyman or other communicant of the Protestant Episcopal Church;

To endow two other Lectureships: one on Biblical Literature and Learning, and the other on Christian Evidences, the object of such Lectureships to be to provide for all the students who may be willing to avail themselves of a complete course of instruction in sacred learning and in the philosophy of right thinking and right living, without which no education can justly be called complete.

The first of the Lectureships projected by Bishop Harris, that for the establishment and defence of Christian truth, was endowed in 1886 by the Hon. Henry P. Baldwin and wife. The second to be founded is that on Christian Evidences, and it is in fulfilment of the earnest wish of the founder that the first course is given by the Rev. John Fulton, D.D., LL.D. The lecturer is appointed upon the nomination of the Bishop of Michigan.

As Mrs. Slocum executed no deed of trust when she placed in my hands ten thousand dollars for the object above named, I have thought it advisable to appoint as Trustees of this fund those gentleman who are charged with the trust of the foundation for the Baldwin Lectureship, viz.: Messrs. Henry P. Baldwin, Henry A. Hayden, Sidney D. Miller, Henry P. Baldwin, 2nd, Hervy C. Parke, with the addition of Mr. Elliott T. Slocum.

Thomas F. Davies,