The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

§. In a bodily shape.

First, It was convenient that the Holy Ghost should reveal himself at this time: First, for the sake of John, who was to have a sensible sign, whereby to inform him which was the Messias, as Joh. 1.

Secondly, In regard of the Holy Ghost himself, whose work in the Church was now in a more special and frequent manner to be shewed under the Gospel, namely, that he might be expressed and revealed to be a personal substance, and not an operation of the Godhead only, or qualitative vertue. For qualities, operations and acts cannot as∣sume bodily shapes, nor ought but what is in it self substantial.

Thirdly, That a full and clear, yea, even a sensible demonstration of the Trinity might be made at this beginning of the Gospel. For it may be observed in Scripture, that the Holy Ghost hath a special regard to express this mystery upon singular occa∣sions, that we might learn to acknowledge the three Persons in one Godhead, as he also doth the two natures of Christ, that we might acknowledge them in one person. So the very first thing that is taught in all the Bible, is this very mystery: For when Moses beginneth the Story of the Creation, he beginneth also to teach that the three Persons in the Trinity were co-workers in it. God Created, there is the Father. God said, there is the Word, or the Son. And the Spirit of God moved, there is the Holy Ghost. And the very same mystery is intimated by the Prophet, treating upon the very same Subject, Isa. 42. 5. Thus saith God the Lord, he that created the Heavens,

and they that stretched them out: That we might learn, that Of him, through him, and to him, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, are all things, Rom. 11. 36. So Moses also when he is to teach concerning the creation of man, he first teacheth that it was the Trinity that created him, Gen. 1. 26. And God said, Let us make man after our Image. He saith, Let us, to shew the Trinity of persons: and he saith, In our Image, not in our Images, to shew the unity of essence; That every man, even from the reading of the story of his Creation might learn to remember his Creators in the days of his youth; as Solomon with the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Boraiecha, answereth the same mystery, Eccles. 12. 1. So likewise at the confusion of Tongues the Trinity is expressed, Gen. 11. 7. Let us go down and confound their Language: as it is also at the gift of Tongues, I will send the Comforter from the Father, Joh. 15. 26. Act. 1. 4. Such a one also was the blessing pronounced by the Priest upon the people, when he dismissed them from the daily ser∣vice of the Temple, in the name of the Trinity, Numb. 6. 24, 25, 26. the name Jeho∣vah or the Lord, three times repeated, for denotation of the three Persons, as Paul explaineth it, 2 Cor. 13. 13. When Moses also beginneth to rehearse the Law to Israel, and to explain it, the first thing he teacheth them is the Trinity in Unity, and Unity in Trinity, Deut. 6. 4. Hear O Israel, the Lord, our God, the Lord, is one. Three words answering the three Persons, and the middle word our God, deciphering fitly the second, who assumed our nature, as is well observed by Galatinus. To these may be added, the entrance of Moses his revelation with the Name of the Lord, three times rehearsed, Exod. 34. 6. The Vision of Esay with three Holies, Isa. 6. 3. The begin∣ning of Psal. 50. and of Psal. 136. and many of the like nature, which the heedful reader will observe himself. How fitting then was it that at the beginning of the new world, and the new Law, and the baptism of Christ, the three Persons should be re∣vealed, especially since he ordained baptism to be administred in their Names; Baptize them in the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Matth. 28. 19.