Preached at S. Paul, upon Whitsunday. 1629

              preached at S paulsa pauls5 pauls upon whitsunday r62q 162 GEN i2and iland 1.2 12 12 AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD MOVED UPON THE FACE OF THE WATERS khe HE CHURCH of god celebrates this day the third person of the holy blessed and glorious trinity the holy ghost the holy ghost is the god the spirit of comfort A comforter not one amongst others but the comforter not the principall principale principall but the intire the onely comforter and more then all that the comfort it selfe that is an attribute of the holy ghost comfort and then the office of the holy ghost is to gather to establish to illumine to governe governa that church which the son of god from whom together with the father the holy ghost proceeds hath purchased with his blood so that as the holy ghost is the comforter so is this comfort exhibited by him to us and exercised by him upon us in this espe- cially that he hath gathered us established us illumined us and does governe governa us as members of that body of which christ jesus is the head that he hath brought us and bred us and fed us with the meanes of salvation in his application of the merits of christ to our soules in the ordinances of the church in this text is the first mention of this third person of the trinity and it is the first mention of any distinct person in the godhead god head in the first verse there is an intimation of the trinity in that bara elohim that gods gods in the plurall plurals are said to have made heaven and earth and then as the church after having celebrated the memory of all saints together in that one day which we call all saints day begins in the celebration of particular saints first with I1