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Of the diversity of the gifts of the holy Ghost, and of the difference of them.

Of the diuersitie of the giftes of the holie Ghoste, and of the difference of them.

P. Thou hast here to note, that albeit there is but one only and one very spirit of God, which distributeth all his gifts, yet notwithstanding his gifts be divers. Wherefore there must be difference put between them.

P. Thou hast here to note, that albeit there is but one onely and one very spirite of God, whiche distributeth all hys giftes, yet notwithstanding his giftes bée diuers. Wherefore there muste be difference put betwene them.

M. How takest thou this difference?

P. In that that there be some that are so necessary to every mans salvation, that no man can be saved except he be made partaker of them ⟨p. 221⟩in his proper person.

P. In that that ther be some that are so necessarie to euerye mans saluation, that no man can be saued except he be made partaker of them ⟨p. 221⟩in his proper person.

M. Be there others without the which we may well be?

M. Be there others without the whiche we may well be?

P. There is none but they be very profitable and necessary to the Church. For if they were not profitable and necessary, they should be superfluous and vain: which thing we may not think of god. For he hath not done and ordained any thing without good and just cause, without necessity or great profit and commodity.

P. There is none but they be verye profitable and necessarie to the Churche. For if they were not profitable and necessarye, they shoulde be superfluous and vaine: whiche thing we may not thinke of god. For he hath not doone and ordeyned any thing without good and iust cause, without necessitie or greate profite and commoditie.

M. I do well understand it so.

M. I doe well vnderstand it so.

P. And therefore we must here consider, that a thing may be profitable and necessary in two sorts.

P. And therefore we must here consider, that a thing may bée profitable and necessarie in two sortes.

M. Which is the first?

M. Whiche is the first?

P. I will give thee example touching the gifts whereof we speak: For there be some which profit nothing, but only to those which have them in their own person, and without the which none may be agreeable to God nor saved. There be others which may profit those which have them not, and not those which have them, albeit they have them not in their own persons: and the Infidels may have them, and they not serve them but to their condemnation.

P. I wil giue thée example touching the giftes whereof wée speake: For there be some whiche profyte nothing, but only to those which haue them in their own person, and withoute the whiche none may be agréeable to God nor saued. Ther be others whiche may profite those whiche haue them not, and not those whiche haue them, albeit they haue them not in their owne persones: and the Infidells may haue them, and they not serue them but to their condemnation.

Of the gifts of the holy Ghost necessary for every man to obtain salvation thereby.

Of the giftes of the holie Ghoste necessarie for euerie man to obtayn saluation therby.

M. Give me example of the one sort, & of the other.¹

M. GIue mée example of the one sort, & of the other.¹

1. 1Rom. 3.4. a &. 5. a Gal. 2. a. Rom. 8. c

P. For the first, seeing that none can be justified nor be made the Son of God but only by faith in Jesus Christ, it followeth well, that none can be saved without this gift of faith. And therefore S. Paul doth call this gift and grace of God, the spirit of adoption, by the which he adopteth us for his children in Jesus Christ, by the mean and work of his holy Spirit.

P. For the first, séeing that none can be iustified nor be made the Sonne of God but onely by fayth in Iesus Christe, it foloweth well, yt none can be saued without this gifte of faith. And therfore S. Paule doth call this gift and grace of God, the spirite of adoption, by the whiche hée adopteth vs for his children in Iesus Christe, by the meane and worke of his holie Spirite.