PREFACE. 



mind, the times in which his lordship wrote them, 

 and the distaste of that court against the proceed 

 ings of Barnevelt, whose state-faction blemished his 

 creed. 



Of this tract there are various MSS. (a) in the 



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 quick 

 ened 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 Spiritus Sanctus 

 & amor, & vinculum Patris & Filii, (the Holy Ghost is the love 

 and the bond of the Father and the Son). 



&quot; In page 416, 1. 12, are these words: 



&quot; Christ accomplished the whole work of the redemption 

 and restitution of man to a state superior to the angels. 



&quot; This (superior) seems to hit upon that place, la-dyyeX^ 

 Luke xx. 36, which argues but equality. Suarez (De Angelis, 

 lib. 1. cap. 1.) saith, that angels are superior to men, quoad 

 gradum intellectualem, & quoad immediatam habitationem ad 

 Deum, (both in respect of the degree of their intellectual nature, 

 and of the nearness of their habitation to God). Yet St. Austin 

 affirmeth, naturam humanam in Christo perfectiorem esse ange 

 lica, (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, 



Corrigere, res est tanto magis ardua, quanto 

 Magnus, Aristarcho major, Homerus erat. 



In haste. Your servant, 



ROGER MAYNWARING.&quot; 



(a) Sloanes, 2 copies, 23 Cat. Harle mn, vol. 2, 314 vol. 3, 

 61. Hargrove s p, 62. 



