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C. Having spoke to the matter, now speak of the sense of the Text, 1 Cor. 4. 7. and Rom. 12. 6. For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it.

B. It is most evident, that Paul speaketh of the Gifts or Excellencies themselves primarily and of Differing from others, but as a resultancy from those Gifts: And he meddleth not here with the question, why others have not those Gifts as well as they? and so why others differ from them. q. d. Are not all those things of which you glory, the free gifts of God? And is it not by those free gifts that you differ as more excellent than others? And should you boast of that which is Gods free Gift, of which you are but Receivers? To pass by the common answer that Paul speaketh of Ministerial Gifts, and not of special Grace, what Arminian can deny any of this, about the Grace of faith it self. 1. He must confess that we have no Grace to cause faith, but what we have received; (For the Act which we performed is no otherwise to be said to be received, but as we receive the gracious operation which causeth it). 2. He cannot deny that by this Received Grace and Faith, the believer in excellency differeth from unbelievers. 3. Nor that such a Receiver hath no cause of boasting, as if he had not received it. Who will deny this?

B. It is most evident, that Paul speaketh of the Gifts or Excellencies themselves primarily and of Differing from others, but as a resultancy from those Gifts: And he medleth not here with the question, why others have not those Gifts as well as they? and so why others differ from them. q. d. Are not all those things of which you glory, the free gifts of God? And is it not by those free gifts that you differ as more excellent than others? And should you boast of that which is Gods free Gift, of which you are but Receivers? To pass by the common answer that Paul speaketh of Ministerial Gifts, and not of special Grace, what Arminian can deny any of this, about the Grace of faith it self. 1. He must confess that we have no Grace to cause faith, but what we have received; (For the Act which we performed is no otherwise to be said to be received, but as we receive the gracious operation which causeth it). 2. He cannot deny that by this Received Grace and Faith, the believer in excellency differeth from unbelievers. 3. Nor that such a Receiver hath no cause of boasting, as if he had not received it. Who will deny this?