Panthenosia: The Composition of All Dissensions

equivalently placed within Him; it is necessary, since He cannot be moved in any way, nor can things be added to Him, that He granted all those perfections to Christ the mediator to be dispensed by His spirit. Whence it is evident that the spirit of Christ is the likeness of all the persons of the Divinity, and of the perfections flowing from thence. Therefore, rightly and piously, besides the fact that He is the consubstantial Son of God and the second person of the Trinity, He is and can and must be called the spirit of the Father, the spirit of the Son, the spirit of the Spirit, the spirit of essence, the spirit of unity, the spirit of truth, the spirit of goodness, etc. And because that rationale of the spirit does not only look to the divinity from which it flows, but also to the creature to which it accommodates itself in general and in special, it therefore must also take a name from inferior perfections. By His virtue, 10 orders of angels subsist, so many distinct spheres of the heavens, so many genera of prime matters. In Him is every particular spirit of mercy and justice, without whose dispensation no creature could stand under God. For since sin is the de-ordination and spiritual overturning of the universe, it could not happen that the world could stand under the severity of the justice of God. New things, and things renewed daily, are founded, preserved, and led to their end by this dispenser of the treasures of God, both in nature and in grace. From Him, all nature received its being one and the same, one distinct from every other, and the same in its kind: just as any angel or man...