Sect. 3.
But they goe farther, and say, that this phrase, the holy Spirit, signifie's Dei Donum, which is given to cer∣tain men,* 1.1 and is called the earnest of our inheritance; no doubt, and he cite's 2 Cor. 1.22. as Ephesians 1.14. all this is granted, that the holy Spirit is taken sometimes for the Gifts, but by a Metonymie, the cause for the effect; but that it should never be taken for that Divine person, we deny, and they cannot prove; for, as St. Paul dispute's the case at large, 1 Cor. 12. The gifts of the spirit are divers, but the same Spirit, that third person of the Trinity, is one; so that although the Spirit may be called by the name of those Gifts which proceed from it, yet he is distinct from them, and here it is evident in my Text, he was another thing besides them. This is all that I find objected; and all this is confuted out of this, where the holy Spirit is said to de∣scend upon our Saviour in the likeness of a dove, to which none of these extravagant expressions can be applyed. And now, there needs no more from Scripture; Their great defiance to us,* 1.2 to produce Reason for what we speak, may be defyed by us as unnecessary in a Case of Faith; where we have Scripture we must believe be∣yond, yea against reason; the Scripture hath been abun∣dantly handled by diverse, although in these places, which I have handled, I have endeavoured to contribute something to the clearing of them; The rationall laid aside by all almost, as an impossible work.