This also may farther appear, if we consider how distinctly
the persons of the Deity are revealed to act in the communication
of those good things, wherein the saints have communion with God. “Tametsi omnia unus idemque Deus efficit, ut
dicitur, — opera Trinitatis ad extra sunt indivisa, distinguuntur tamen
personæ discrimine in istis operibus.”— Matt.
iii. 16; Acts iii.
13: Gen. xix. 24, i. 26;
Matt. xxviii. 19; 2 Cor. xiii. 14. As all
the spiritual ascendings of their souls are assigned unto them
respectively, so all their internal receiving of the communications of God
unto them are held out in such a distribution as points at distinct rises
and fountains (though not of being in themselves, yet) of dispensations
unto us. Now this is declared two ways:—