ABSTRACT
The knowledge of God primarily is the knowledge which God has of Himself as He exists as Father and Son bound in the bond of divine love, the Holy Spirit. His Self-revelation, the person, acts and words of the Word made flesh is the revelation of this Triune God, God as He exists in se. Light and life, revelation and reconciliation, are bracketed together in the Laudian mind. This is abundantly clear in the sermons of Lancelot Andrewes on the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit, and Christ and his benefits, is poured out upon the Church, creating and sustaining it, in a particular way and for a particular purpose in the midst of creation. The doctrine of the Holy Spirit as expressed by Andrewes stands at the heart of the question of order. In it the relation between God and humanity, the community of union which the latter has with the former, is seen as the very bond of order.
