The Holy Spirit was equally concerned with the Father and the Son in the work of Creation. “By the Word of the Lord were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath (Heb. Spirit) of his mouth.” The _breath_ or spirit of the Lord’s _mouth_, says an excellent author, does undoubtedly mean the third person of the Trinity; who is called, “The Spirit of God, and the Breath of the Almighty.”--“They lift up their voice to God with one accord, and said, LORD, thou art GOD, which hast made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all that therein is. WHO, by the mouth of thy servant David, hast said,” &c. The terms LORD and GOD are here used to express the Divinity of _him_, says the same able writer, who spake _by the mouth_ of his servant David. But it was the HOLY GHOST who _spake by the mouth_ of his servant David--for, saith St. Peter, “This Scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the HOLY GHOST,” by the mouth of David, “spake,” &c. Therefore the terms LORD and GOD are certainly used to _express the Divinity of the_ HOLY GHOST.[15] In the work of creation, the “SPIRIT of GOD moved upon the face of the waters,” by an infinite vitality infusing life, and with a formative energy giving form. “By his SPIRIT he hath garnished the heavens” with an incalculable number of luminous stars; all those glittering worlds, which serve for use as well as beauty, were formed by the Spirit of God. As none but the _third_ Person in the Godhead is ever so much as once in the Scriptures called the _Spirit of God_; so the Holy Spirit’s agency in the work of creation evinces his distinct personality, and is a confirmation of his proper Divinity. A cause must be equal to the effect it produces: but no finite spirit could be a joint, concurring, efficient cause in the work of the creation: therefore the Holy Spirit is God. Supposing the matter of which the worlds were made to be called into being out of nothing by the Almighty power of the Father, or by the fiat of the Son; yet the animating of the whole lifeless mass, the putting of every part into motion, the assortment of all the particles, the assigning of them their proper places, and the completing of the whole with such astonishing beauty and harmony, which was the peculiar work of the Holy Spirit, required no less than an almighty power, which clearly demonstrates that he is God.