Prima the first things, in reference to the middle and last things

First, God begat us, and so are we called Gods sons, born not of blood, ¹nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God, John 1.13. Regeneration is the work of God, and because it is a work external, it is therefore communicable to each Person in the Trinity: Ye are sanctified (saith the Apostle) in the name of the Lord Jesus, ²and by the spirit of our God, 1 Cor. 6.11. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, all sanctify, all work the same work: but as in the Godhead there is but one Essence, and yet three manners of being of the same one Essence; so in Gods outward operations, all the Persons work rem eandem, one thing, but all work not eodem modo, after one manner: For instance, the ⟨p. 23⟩works of Creation, Redemption, and Sanctification, are the common works of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost, yet every one of these works common to all three, are terminated in some one of them: So the ^aFather is said to create, the ^bSon is said to create, the ^cHoly Ghost is said to create; so the Father is said to redeem, the Son is said to redeem, the Holy Ghost is said to redeem; so the Father is said to sanctify, the Son is said to sanctify, the Holy Ghost is said to sanctify: Thus all three concur to every one of these works, and yet every one of these works, is terminated, specified, and formed (as it were) in the very last act by one of these three: The work of the Creation is determinated immediately in God the Father, the work of Redemption is determinated immediately in God the Son, the work of Regeneration is determinated immediately in God the Holy Ghost. And it is memorable, that as the community of these works (ad extra) depends on the unity of Gods Essence, so the diversity of their determinations depends on the diverse manners of Gods existence, or subsisting: the Father is of himself, neither made nor begotten, and therefore it best agrees with him to make all things of nothing, which is the work of Creation; the Son is of the Father alone by reflection of his intellect, and so called the representation of his Fathers Image, and therefore it best agrees with him to represent his Fathers mercies to mankind, by saving them from death and hell, which is the work of Redemption;