Other signification of _spirit_ I find nowhere any; and where none of these can satisfy the sense of that word in Scripture, the place falleth not under human understanding; and our faith therein consisteth not in our opinion, but in our submission; as in all places where God is said to be a _Spirit_; or where by the _Spirit of God_, is meant God himself. For the nature of God is incomprehensible; that is to say, we understand nothing of _what he is_, but only _that he is_; and therefore the attributes we give him, are not to tell one another, _what he is_, nor to signify our opinion of his nature, but our desire to honour him with such names as we conceive most honourable amongst ourselves. [Sidenote: The spirit of God taken in the Scripture sometimes for a wind, or breath.] _Gen._ i. 2. _The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters._ Here if by the _Spirit of God_ be meant God himself, then is _motion_ attributed to God, and consequently _place_, which are intelligible only of bodies, and not of substances incorporeal; and so the place is above our understanding, that can conceive nothing moved that changes not place, or that has not dimension; and whatsoever has dimension, is body. But the meaning of those words is best understood by the like place, (_Gen._ viii. 1.) where when the earth was covered with waters, as in the beginning, God intending to abate them, and again to discover the dry land, useth the like words, _I will bring my Spirit upon the earth, and the waters shall be diminished_: in which place, by _Spirit_ is understood a wind, that is an air or _spirit moved_, which might be called, as in the former place, the _Spirit of God_, because it was God’s work. [Sidenote: Secondly, for extraordinary gifts of the understanding.] Gen. xli. 38, Pharoah calleth the Wisdom of Joseph, the _Spirit of God_. For Joseph having advised him to look out a wise and discreet man, and to set him over the land of Egypt, he saith thus, _Can we find such a man as this is, in whom is the Spirit of God?_ And _Exod._ xxviii. 3, _Thou shalt speak_, saith God, _to all the wise hearted, whom I have filled with the spirit of wisdom, to make Aaron garments, to consecrate him_: where extraordinary understanding, though but in making garments, as being the _gift_ of God, is called the _Spirit of God_. The same is found again, _Exod._ xxxi. 3, 4, 5, 6, _and_ xxxv. 31. And _Isaiah_ xi. 2, 3, where the prophet speaking of the Messiah, saith, _the Spirit of the Lord shall abide upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and fortitude, and the spirit of the fear of the Lord_. Where manifestly is meant, not so many ghosts, but so many eminent graces that God would give him. [Sidenote: Thirdly, for extraordinary affections.]