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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John xiv. 17 He schal ȝyue to ȝou another coumfortour, the spirit of treuthe [L. Spiritum veritatis].

c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 151 (MED) I schal preie my Fadur, and anoþer Spirit he schal ȝeue to ȝou..þe Spirit of soþnes.

1533 J. Frith Bk. answeringe Mores Let. sig. Mi Y^espirit of verytie, which is sent from God our Father through our saviour.., to lyghten our darke ignoraunce.

1551 Bible (Matthew's) John xv. 26 When the comforter is come,..whiche is the spirite of truthe [Gk. τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς ἀληθείας].

1645 H. Burton Vindiciæ Veritatis 32 There be in Parliament and Assembly, at least some true Nathaniels and Stephens, filled with the Holy ghost, and so many armies of prayers in the Spirit daily sent up to heaven, to bring down that Spirit of truth upon them.

1684 F. Bernard Christian Duty xi. 63 God gives you not the spirit of Aristotle, Cicero, Hypocrates, but his own Spirit, the Spirit of Verity.

1776 A. Serle Horæ Solitariæ 289 The Spirit of Truth evidently anointed his [sc. Christ's] Manhood by the Profluence of his Grace.

1789 Hieroglyphick iii. 18 The Spirit of Truth is pleading with all Flesh, the resisters, the dispisers shall be slain, and the slain of the Earth shall be many.

a1817 T. Dwight Theol. (1818) IV. cxxxvi. 511 Some persons..appear to feel, as if regeneration could not be absolutely attributed to the Spirit of Truth, unless it was accomplished, altogether, without the employment of Means.

1904 L. Wiener tr. L. Tolstoy Critique Dogmatic Theol. v. in tr. Compl. Wks. XIII. 176 These words..prove the consubstantiality of the Holy Ghost with God: the Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father.

1987 Jrnl. Relig. Ethics 15 113 The resources for the spiritual fulfillment of the golden rule are found in Jesus' intimate relationship with the individual through the Spirit of Truth.