ABSTRACT
The coming of Christ and the complementary coming of the Spirit bring to fulfilment a previous programme of the acts of God. The coming of Christ is the fulfilment of the whole movement of the history of Israel and of the Old Testament promise. Lancelot Andrewes emphasizes the Holy Spirit as the Spirit of re-creation and restoration under the new covenant. He does so in the context of the Order of the working out of God's design of redemption, stressing the continuity of God's acts towards humanity and His creation in the old covenant and into the new, and the constancy of the Order of the ways of God in so doing. The Laudians were quite well aware that the interaction of God with humanity in the incarnation and in the outpouring of the Holy Spirit, was essentially a mystery which was to be lived in and not thought out and explained.
