Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

2. The Authority of it! thence he is said to be SENT; §. 16 Chap. 14. 26. the Father will send him in my name: and Chap. 15. 26. I will send him unto you from the Father, and him will I send to you chap 16. 17. This mission of the holy Ghost by the Father and the Son, as it answers the order of the persons subsistence in the blessed Trinity, and his procession from them both, so the order voluntarily engaged in by them, for the accomplishment, (as was said) of the work of our Salvation. There is in it, in a most special manner the Condescension of the Holy Ghost in his Love to us, to the Authoritative delegation of Father, and Son, in this business: which argues not a disparity dissimilitude, or inequality of Essence, but of Office, in this work: It is the Office of the Holy Ghost to be an Advocate for us, and a Comforter to us; in which respect, not absolutely, he is thus sent Authoritatively by Father and Son: It is a known maxim, that Inaequalitas officii non tollit aequalitatem naturae: This subjection (if I may so call it) or inequality in respect of office doth no way's prejudice the equality of nature which he hath with Father and Son, no more then the mission of the Son by the Father doth his. And on this Authoritative mission of the Spirit, doth the right Apprehensions of many mysteries in the Gospel, and the ordering of our hearts in Communion with him depend.

2. The Authority of it! thence he is said to be SENT; §. 16 Chap. 14. 26. the Father will send him in my name: and Chap. 15. 26. I will send him unto you from the Father, and him will I send to you chap 16. 17. This mission of the holy Ghost by the Father and the Son, as it answers the order of the persons subsistence in the blessed Trinity, and his procession from them both, so the order voluntarily engaged in by them, for the accomplishment, (as was said) of the worke of our Salvation. There is in it, in a most speciall manner the Condescension of the Holy Ghost in his Love to us, to the Authoritative delegation of Father, and Son, in this businesse: which argues not a disparity dissimilitude, or inequality of Essence, but of Office, in this worke: It is the Office of the Holy Ghost to be an Advocate for us, and a Comforter to us; in which respect, not absolutely, he is thus sent Authoritatively by Father and Sonne: It is a known maxime, that Inaequalitas officii non tollit aequalitatem naturae: This subjection (if I may so call it) or inequality in respect of office doth no way's prejudice the equality of nature which he hath with Father and Sonne, no more then the mission of the Son by the Father doth his. And on this Authoritative mission of the Spirit, doth the right Apprehensions of many mysterys in the Gospell, and the ordering of our hearts in Communion with him depend.