The Spirit of God, never was, never is, nor ever can be the Spirit of bondage to any soul. Some have asserted it, but it is a mistake. It is contrary to his name, 'The Comforter.' He is a free Spirit, a Spirit of liberty to the soul. It is inconsistent with his office, he takes of the things of Christ, and shews them to us—testifies of Christ—brings us into the liberty of Christ—enables us to glory in the adoption of children, and to call God Father, in the faith of Christ. When he convinces of sin, it is not to bring the soul into bondage, but to break the bondage of sin, of the law, of death and of Satan, in the conscience, and to cast away the cords thereof, that the soul may be united to Christ by faith. In all this, he is 'The Comforter.'

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