into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.” Acts 16:6, 7. Here the Spirit is represented as the active agent in the believer’s re-birth; as teaching, reproving, guiding, speaking, receiving, shewing, as giving active and specific direction to the service of saints, and as praying. It would be difficult to say how the idea of personality could be more elaborately presented. Let it be noted: (1) He is called God. “Also I