1. Psalm 104:30 says, “You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the earth.” Here both creation and renewal are attributed to the Spirit of God. But notice one more thing about this text.
2. Note these words carefully: “You send forth Your Spirit.” Now listen to Bavinck: “special properties and works are attributed to each of the three persons . . . in such a way that the order present between the persons in the ontological Trinity is revealed.”
3. The theologia is revealed in the oikonomia. The mystery of the Trinity is manifested in the external works of the Trinity, sometimes explicitly indicated to us in the written word of God (e.g., Gen. 1:2).
4. As Emery says, “In their common work of creation, the three persons act through their common nature, each person bringing his own property into play.”
5. This is why Webster can say the following:
The Holy Spirit is Lord and giver of life, creation’s perfecting cause. Creation is distinctly assigned to the Spirit in that he is the divine person by whom created things are brought to the proper end. . . .
The Holy Spirit is Lord and giver of life, creation’s perfecting cause. Creation is distinctly assigned to the Spirit in that he is the divine person by whom created things are brought to the proper end. . . .
6. ...By the breath of the Spirit, who is himself breathed by the Father and the Son, creatures . . . come to be alive.
