And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Advocate to be with you forever—
Christ leaves them now to face an unfriendly world alone, so the Spirit comes as compensation, to furnish the instruction and consolation His personal presence would have given. The Spirit reaches all believers everywhere at once, doing what Christ's bodily frame could never accomplish: omnipresent comfort for the vast multitude who shall believe.
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Here stands proof of the Trinity itself: the Father prayed to, the Son in human nature praying, the Spirit given as the gift of the Father through the Son's mediation. The Spirit performs His office by taking Christ's things and showing them to us, shedding abroad the Father's love into our hearts, and sealing us with the pledge of glory, forever, not merely for years.
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Christ loses no time assuring them: though absent in body, He will never leave them destitute. The Spirit is the Father's gift, yet Christ obtains it by prayer and bestows it as God, both are true. Christ was their visible Protector; now the Spirit guards them invisibly, and both offices belong equally to both Persons, for comfort and protection is their shared work.
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