ABSTRACT
The concept of 'order' undergirds the theology of the Elizabethan, Jacobean and Caroline Divines. John Swan sets out, by way of Biblical appeals, the nature of each of the Persons in the work of creation. This is carefully set out, for on it rests two important interdependent factors upon which he insists: that all the Persons of the Trinity are confederate in the work of God, and that God in Himself is all sufficiency and company. The precise way in which Swan follows the orthodox maxim of Athanasius, that God is beyond all created being. Swan's work shows the transition from mediaeval scholastic cosmology and, indeed, mythology, to the flowering of objective observation and interpretation. The order and rationality of creation, is in correspondence, though in its qualitatively different nature as created being, to the Order and Rationality which God is in Himself in His uncreate and eternal Being.
