Catholic communion defended against both extremes, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…Catholick communion defended against both extreams, and unnecessary division confuted in five parts ...…

3. Christ giveth gifts to men now in the due use of means, and not by miracle: Therefore he giveth them in great diversity, and by hard Study, and long Time, Heb. 5. For the time they ought to have been teachers, &c. Therefore a Novice must not be a Bishop; but an Elder, whence the Office had its name. All your pupils, people or Ministers, that had the Spirits gifts, had not your redundancy of Expression. And many can talk more fluently for falsehood, than good men can for truth. I was never much troubled my self for want of words to express what I know; but I have ten thousand times more begged hard for more Knowledge, Faith, Love, and Hope, than ever I did for the gift of utterance; a full heart is earnest, fervent and ready.

3. Christ giveth gifts to men now in the due use of means, and not by miracle: Therefore he giveth them in great diversity, and by hard Study, and long Time, Heb. 5. For the time they ought to have been teachers, &c. Therefore a Novice must not be a Bishop; but an Elder, whence the Office had its name. All your pupils, people or Ministers, that had the Spirits gifts, had not your redundancy of Expression. And many can talk more fluently for falshood, than good men can for truth. I was never much troubled my self for want of words to express what I know; but I have ten thousand times more beg'd hard for more Knowledg, Faith, Love, and Hope, than ever I did for the gift of utterance; a full heart is earnest, fervent and ready.

It is another mistake, That the exercise of Spiritual gifts is expressly forbidden;¹ unless you had meant that just at the use of the Liturgy, extemporate utterance is forbidden; but it is not so in the Pulpit.

It is another mistake, That the exercise of Spiritual gifts is expresly forbidden;