Sweete thovghtes of Iesvs and Marie, or, Meditations for all the feasts of ovr B. Saviovr and his B. Mother togeither with Meditations for all the Sundayes of the yeare and our Sauiovrs Passion : for the vse of the daughters of Sion : diuided into tvvo partes / by Thomas Carre ...

What kind of Spirit the H. Ghost is. I. POINT.

CONSIDER, that though the holy Ghost be a Spirit, Spiration, or brea∣thing; yet is it not like that of Man, which is a Spirit which passeth and returneth not nor like to the Angells, which are Missio∣narie and seruing Spirits▪ nor like to that which our Sauiour Iesus-Christ deliuered vp, when he said: into thy hands I commend my Spirit. To witt: his soule. In fine, it is no created Spirit, but an immense, increa∣ted, diuine Spirit, intrinsecall to God, yea, God himself, the third person of the B. Trinitie; the same God with the Father, and the Sonne; proceeding from them by an eternall, spiration; and therefore, coe∣quall, consubstantiall, coeternall with them, and equally to be adored and glo∣rified

together with them, as Lord, and life-giuer.

[Affection.] Let me loue thee, ô thou dea∣re eternall, immutable, and euer perma∣nent Spirit, and loue of the father and the sonne; let me loue thee. And as thou pro∣ceedest from that one only, more then most blessed eternall will of the father and the Sonne, and becomest naturally and substantially one only God with them, be∣fore time, so grant; that my will, in ty∣me, by the participation of thy heate, and thy grace, may so louingly adheare to that diuine will, and be lincked together, in so perfect a bond of true friendshipp, that there be but one will betwixt heauen and earth, God and Man. That that may be as truly meant and accomplished, as fre∣quently pronounced: Thy will (that is, that sourse of life, of libertie, of eternall loue) be donne in earth as it is in heauen: that by such conformitie, resignation, and adheasion, we may all become but one Spirit with thee.