This article is a biblical survey of the person and work of the Holy Spirit.

What is the relation between Christ and God? Is he in some way inferior to God? This article must be read against the background of the ecclesiastical history of the author's native Ulster. There were certain "nonsubscribers" who were those Irish Presbyterians who opposed subscription to the Westminster Confession of Faith. Their primary motive was their Arian sympathies.

The claim of this article is that the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15) is a parable of the atonement.