in power and glory. (2.) He is subordinate to the Father and Son, as to his mode of subsistence and operation, as He is said to be of the Father and of the Son ; He is sent by them, and they operate through Him. (3.) He bears the same relation to the Father as to the Son ; as He is said to be of the one as well as of the other, and He is given by the Son as well as by the Father. (4.) His eternal relation to the other persons of the Trinity is indi- cated by the word Spirit, and by its being said that he is e/< tov 6eov, out of God, i. e., God is the source whence the Spirit is said to proceed.
§ 2. The Office of the Eoly Spirit. A. In Nature. The general doctrine of the Scriptures on this subject is that the Spirit is the executive of the Godhead. Whatever God does. He does by the Spirit. Hence in the creed of Constantinople, adopted by the Church universal, He is said to be to Hvcvjxa, t6 Kvpiov, to ^woTTotov. He is the immediate source of all life. Even in the external world the Spirit is everywhere present and everywhere active. Matter is not intelligent. It has its peculiar properties, which act blindly according to established laws. The intelh'gence, therefore, manifested in vegetable and animal structures, is not to be referred to matter, but to the omnipresent Spirit of God. It was He who brooded over the waters and reduced chaos into order. It was He who garnished the heavens. It is He that causes the grass to grow. The Psalmist says of all living creatures, " Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest awaytlieir breath, they die, and return to their dust. Thou sendest forth tliy Spirit, they are created: and thou renewest the face of the earth." (Ps. civ. 29, 30.) Compare Is. xxxii. 14, 15. Job, speaking of his corporeal frame, says, " The Spirit of God hath made me." (Job xxxiii. 4.) And the Psalmist, after describing the omnipresence of the Spirit, refers to his agency the wonderful mechanism of the human body. " I am fearfully and wonderfully made .... my substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect ; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them." (Ps. cxxxix. 14-16.) Cypi'ian (or the author of the Tract " De Spiritu Sancto," included in his works) says, " Hie Spiritus Sanctus ab ipso mundi initio aquis legitur superfusus; non materialibus aquis quasi vehiculo egens,