Distinct Triune Godhead

 "That the Divine Spirit is to be distinguished from the Father and the

Son, appears from all those passages in holy Scripture, which reveal to us the simultaneous cooperation of three infinite agents. 

Thus when we read, at our Lord’s baptism, of the voice of the Father, of the human presence of Jesus, of the visible descent of the Spirit, for: Luke 3:21 The heaven was opened, and the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon Him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, You are my beloved Son, in You I am well pleased: –we are compelled to say, that the descending Spirit is distinct from the baptized Savior, and from the approving Father. 

And when Jesus says, John 14:16 I will pray the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, that He may abide with you for ever: –and when this promise being fulfilled on the day of Pentecost, we find that the Holy Ghost appeared seated on the disciples as cloven tongues of fire: we are constrained to acknowledge that the Spirit is distinct from the mediating Savior, and the Father who decreed the gift. 

And when we read of... Matthew 28:19 ...the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, –and again of... 

2 Corinthians 13:14 ...the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.

1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ, –Scripture leads us to conclude that 

as the bleeding Savior is distinct from the Father, so the sanctifying Spirit is Himself distinct." 

E.H Bickersteth