212 LETTERS FROM THE BACONIANA. 



In page 7, lines the 23rd and 24th,* are these words : 

 &quot; The three heavenly unities exceed all natural unities, 

 that is to say, the unity of the Three Persons in Godhead ; 

 the unity of God and man in Christ, and the unity of Christ 

 and the church, the Holy Ghost being the worker of both 

 these latter unities ; for, by the Holy Ghost was Christ 

 incarnate, and quickened in flesh ; and by the Holy Ghost is 

 man regenerate, and quickened in spirit.&quot; 



Here two of the unities are ascribed to the Holy Ghost. 

 The first seems excluded; yet divines say, that &quot; Spiritus 

 Sanctus est amor, et vinculum Patris et Filii&quot; [the Holy 

 Ghost is the love and the bond of the Father and the Son]. 

 In page 8, line the 13th,f are these words : 

 &quot; Christ accomplished the whole work of the Redemp 

 tion and restitution of man, to a state superior to the 



This [superior] seems to hit upon that place, 

 which argues but equality. Suarez (De Angelis, lib. 1, 

 cap. 1.) saith, that angels are superior to men, &quot; Quod 

 gradum intellectualem, et quoad immediatam habitatiouem 

 ad Deum,&quot; [both in respect of the degree of their intellec 

 tual nature, and of the nearness of their habitation to God]. 

 Yet St. Austin affirmeth, &quot; Naturam humanam in Christo 

 perfectiorem esse angelica&quot; [that the human nature in 

 Christ is more perfect than the angelical]. Consider of this. 

 And thus far, not as a critic or corrector, but as a learner ; 

 for, 



&quot; Corrigere, res est tanto magis ardua, quanto 

 Magnus, Aristarcho, major Homerus erat.&quot; 

 In haste, 



Your servant, 



ROGER MAYNWARING. 



* That is, in Resuscitatio, p. 120, I. 40, 41, &c. 

 f That is, in Resuscitatio, p. 121, lines 8 and 9. 

 Luke xx. 36. 



