In direct reference to the doctrine of the Trinity in Unity, he describes the agency of the three Persons in the creation of man; the Father willing and commanding, the Son ministering and forming, the Spirit sustaining and nourishing him(193). So again he declares that God made all things by his Word or Son, and Wisdom or Spirit, using the terms personally; and that this was the same thing as making them by himself(194), because they are his hands(195). And again, in explaining God’s dispensations in regard to man, he affirms(196) that God was seen under the Old Testament by the Spirit of prophecy, that he was seen subsequently by means of the Son, adoptively, i. e. adopting human nature into the divine(197), and that he will be seen in his character of Father in the kingdom of heaven; and that in this way the Spirit in the Son prepares man, and the Son brings him to the Father, and the Father grants to him immortality: and so again in the work of man’s redemption(198), the Spirit operates, the Son supplies, the Father approves, and man is perfected to salvation. He likewise gives two statements of the substance of the Creed, in which the three Persons of the Trinity are spoken of in the same manner as in the Nicene Creed, both of which will be given in a subsequent chapter. These are all the passages, so far as I have been able to discover, which speak of the three Persons of the most Holy Trinity together; but the doctrine is _implied_ throughout. On the twofold nature of Christ, and especially on his divinity, he is more full. Indeed it would take more space than I can spare to introduce all the passages which bear upon the subject. Very near the beginning of his treatise, in rehearsing the faith of the Church, he speaks of “Christ Jesus our Lord and God and Saviour and King(199);” further on he quotes many passages of Scripture to show that he was spoken of absolutely and definitely as God and Lord(200), and asks the question, How would men be saved, if He who wrought out their salvation upon earth was not God(201)? He asserts that the Word was with God from everlasting(202), and that Jesus was the Son of God before the creation(203), that no man knows the mode of his generation(204), and that God made all things by his indefatigable Word, who is the Artificer of all things, and sitteth upon the cherubim, and preserves all things(205). He declares that the Lord who spake to Abraham was the Son(206), and that it was the Word that appeared to Moses(207).