526 I o i Cor.114,5 Sam. 10.6. stSam.l6.t4. z h Hcb.6.4,s. i ITim.i.r9azo k Luk.S. r;. 3 Mat,t 6.a 8: B crnard. de Natura & Dig- nitatcamer.ds- ain.cap.6. Ins Tim.r,6. CH A r..5. .el n Expofitïon von the fill Vas.. 19. Secondly, the other is,thevtter lofje and aboli/hment of his gifts or excitements. His gifts arc ofthree forts ; Firfl, fome tending to fit vs ro particular callings and font-lions ; as were e there ex. traordinariein the Primitiue Church; as that of Saul this fortitude, wi/dome, Kingly magnanimitie fitting him to manage the affaires of his Kingdorne, the pollìblelutfeot fuch gifts, San!, example glues tcflimonie unto, g The Spirit of the Lord departed from S A V L. Secondly, There are gifts of other goalitie, tendi^g after a fort to fanEtification ; as general! Faith, retnorce for finne ioying in the Gofpell, and whatfoeuer'it is, that comes vndcr that phrafe of the Apoftle, h tafliHg the good word of God, and powers of tbe World to come: The loffe ofthefe, or if there be any like difpofitions, as wee may call them, towards Gods Kingdome, is not quef}io- ned. HYMENMIS and ALEXANDER made+fbip- wrackf of Faith; and Tome recesuing the werd with io,, k is time of temptationgee away. Thirdly, But the root and plenarie habits of Faith, Hope, and Charitie, the ! Gates of Hell cannot prenasle to over:brow. Howbeit here mutt bee diflinguifhcd, Firil, the Gifr, themfelues. Secondly, the vie of the gifts. Thirdly, thedegrees and meafures of them. The exercife and vie of the gifts admit, though not utter lotte, yet intermifíi. on, I n the murther of Vriah, in Bernardi iudgement, * Danid loft not the gift, but left the exercile of Chari- tic : Charitatis in ea fatla eft gnadam quáSfeparatio, non tarnen abolitie: as in flcepe, we Icife not the facultie, but the vie offenfe; as a man in his drinke, or ouercarried with violent paflion, lofcth not thclaculty, but the vie ofRealon. Like thinke ofthe feruour of Gods Spirit; the life and vigour of his operations admit their abatement. That made Paul remember Timothy, tom flirt vp the gift that Was
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