John Owen on the Works of the Holy Spirit.

John Owen comments on the Holy Spirit's work being distinct from the other two persons of the Godhead: Father and Son. In creation, John Owen points that it is the God the Father who creates ex nihilo. The Spirit hovered over the water. The Holy Spirit works with existing materials so to speak. John Owen goes on and writes:

The work of the Spirit being not an original but a perfecting work, it supposes the love, grace, counsel and eternal purpose of the Father, and the whole mediation of Jesus Christ: for it is his peculiar work to make these effectual to the souls of the elect, to the praise of the glory of the grace of God. (Owen, p. 134, The Holy Spirit: His Gifts and Power