_For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory_; and by that it is said, that _He shall come in the glory of his Father_; and by that which St. Paul saith, (_1 Cor._ xv. 24) _then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father_; and by many other most express places. [Sidenote: One and the same God is the person represented by Moses and Christ.] Our Saviour, therefore, both in teaching and reigning, representeth, as Moses did, the person of God; which God from that time forward, but not before, is called the Father; and being still one and the same substance, is one person as represented by Moses, and another person as represented by his son the Christ. For _person_ being a relative to a _representer_, it is consequent to plurality of representers, that there be a plurality of persons, though of one and the same substance. ------- CHAPTER XLII. OF POWER ECCLESIASTICAL. For the understanding of POWER ECCLESIASTICAL, what, and in whom it is, we are to distinguish the time from the ascension of our Saviour, into two parts; one before the conversion of kings, and men endued with sovereign civil power; the other after their conversion. For it was long after the ascension, before any king or civil sovereign embraced and publicly allowed the teaching of Christian religion. [Sidenote: Of the holy spirit that fell on the apostles.] And for the time between, it is manifest, that the _power ecclesiastical_ was in the apostles; and after them in such as were by them ordained to preach the gospel, and to convert men to Christianity, and to direct them that were converted in the way of salvation; and after these, the power was delivered again to others by these ordained, and this was done by imposition of hands upon such as were ordained; by which was signified the giving of the Holy Spirit, or Spirit of God, to those whom they ordained ministers of God, to advance his kingdom. So that imposition of hands was nothing else but the seal of their commission to preach Christ, and teach his doctrine; and the giving of the Holy Ghost by that ceremony of imposition of hands, was an imitation of that which Moses did. For Moses used the same ceremony to his minister Joshua, as we read (_Deut._ xxxiv. 9) _And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him_. Our Saviour therefore, between his resurrection and ascension, gave his spirit to the apostles; first, by _breathing on them, and saying_, (_John_ xx. 22) _Receive ye the Holy Spirit_; and after his ascension (_Acts_ ii. 2, 3) by sending down upon them _a mighty wind, and cloven tongues of fire_; and not by imposition of hands; as neither did God lay his hands on Moses: and his apostles afterward transmitted the same spirit by imposition of hands, as Moses did to Joshua. So that