Saint Augustines confessions translated: and with some marginall notes illustrated. Wherein, diuers antiquities are explayned; and the marginall notes of a former Popish translation, answered. By William Watts, rector of St. Albanes, Woodstreete

CHAP. 6. Of the Spirits mouing vpon the waters.

1. BVt what was the cause, O thou true-speaking light? vnto thee lift I vp my heart, let it not bee taught vanities, dispell thou the darkenesse of it; and tell mee by our mother charity, I beseech thee; tell mee the reason, I beseech thee, why after the mention of heauen, and of the inuisible and shape∣lesse earth, and darknesse vp∣on the Deepe, thy Scriptures should euen then at length make the first mention of thy Spirit? Was it because it was meete so to haue Him insinuated, as that he should bee sayd to moue vpon? and so much could not truely bee sayd, vnlesse that were first mentioned, vpon which thy Spirit may bee vnderstood to

haue moued. For verily, ney∣ther vpon the Father, not vpon the Sonne, was hee moued; nor could he rightly be sayd to moue vpon, if there were nothing yet for him to moue vpon. First therefore was that to bee spoken of, which He was sayd to moue vpon; and then Hee, whom it was requisite not to haue named otherwise, then a▪ Hee was sayd to moue vpon. But wherefore yet was •••• not fitting to haue Him in∣sinuated otherwayes, vnlesse Hee were sayd to moue vp∣on?