to drowfie SA LNTS. by one Spirit unto'the Father, Ephef. 2.18 . The Spirit of God is but one., Yee know there is but one God, in three per - fons a one Father, one Sonne, one holy Spirit. There be three that beare record in Heaven, the Father, the WYord,and the Holy Gholl,and theft three are one, i Joh.g cttiere is but one Father,and one Son, whom the Apotile there calls the Word, for fo he is often called in the Scripture. Tl e Word was made ph, that is,the Sonne of God was made flefh t fo there is but one Holy Gho(t,one holy Spirit. Why then does the Text here fay of Chrjft,that he bath the (even Spirits of God ? I Anfwer, yee may know that the Revelation ufes pecu- liar phrafes, auguft, and myfticall. Now the reafon why John (peaks thus in the plurali number, is , Firtt, becaufe hee alludes to the manner of his Vifions; now in his Vifrons,the holy G hoft was thus reprefented un- to him, as yee may fee,Rev.4.5. where he faw (even Lamps of ire burning before the Throne, which are the (even Spi- rits of God. So,again, Rev.5.6. where he faw a Lamb as it had been (lain, having feven horns, and feven eye r, which are the feven Spirits of Çod,fent forth into all the earth. So, that this is one reafon why he calls the Holy Ghoft the fe- ven Spirits of God, becaufe he fpeaks after this manner, of the Vifion that he faw. Secondly, another reafon is, becaufe he was to write to the (even Churches of Afta. Now hee (peaks of the Holy Ghoft in the fame number , becaufe that one and the fame Holy Ghoft,is feverally and intirely powred upon them all. The Spirit of God was mEphefus,and the Spirit of God was in Smyrna; and the Spirit of God was in Pergamos , and fo in Thyatira,and fo in Sardis,andPhiladelphia,and Laodice s: and therefore he calls him the leven Spirits of God, though he be but one and the fame Spirit. Thirdly, hee calls him the (even Spirits of -God, by a1, common Metonymie, of putting the effects for the caufe, becaufe there be many and fundry gifts and graces of the holy Spirit of God ; the number (even being put to fignifie K 3 the
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