graceandLove beyond,gifts. +3 Though the way ofGifts (f iritualGifts) bean excellent Way, Dort. andmuch to be defired; yet the way of Grace and Love is amore excellent Way, andmolt to be defired. For the opening of which truth, Three things : Firff,That there is a way ofGifts diftina from the way of Grace, and a way of Grace diftinec from the way ofGifts. Secondly,That there is much excellency in thefe Spiritual gifts, that the way of Gifts is a very excellent way, and much to be .defired. Thirdly, Thai theway of Brace and ofLove is yet a more ex- cellent way, and more to be defired. Firft, I fay, There is a wayof Gifts diftin& from the way of Grace and Holinefs, xtiets and xie2g.644 are Cliftina : All the Saints and-people of God have Grace,but al have not thefe Gifts. Grace is that excellency whereby we are made like to God inChrift : Gifts are that excellency,wherby we are made able to do fervice for God in the Church of God. By Grace ( fay the Schools ) we do, bene agere, we do work well ; and byGifts we do, expedite agere, we do aft more facilly, eafily, expeditely.A man may have a gift in Prayer,and yet no grace in Prayer: a manmayhave a gift inPreaching and Exercifing, yet no grace under it : a man May have the gift of Faith, (though Ihave all Faith,fo that I could remove Mountiiins,and have not Charity, I have nothing; he fpeaks of the gift of Faith,) A man may have, I fay, the gift of Faith, and yet not the Paving gxace of Faith : So that plainly there is a way of Gifts diftina from the way of Grace; and away of Grace and Holinefs diftina from the way ofGifts. But what excellency is there then in gifts, and in the way of gifts Firft, Much, very much, they are called 7YericatnYse, in the 14. Chapter, and the firft verfe, Defire ffiritaal Gifts. In this i z. Chapter, theyare laid to be of the Spirit, by the Spi-, rit ,from the Spirit.And if you look into the ioth of the AFts, you (hall find that they are called, The very Spirit, or the holy. Ghoft at the 44. verf. While Peter yet Jake thefe words , the Holy Ghoft fell upon all themWhich heard the word, and they of the Circumcifion which beleeved, were aftomjhed , be- G
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