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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the book of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus near the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the thirty second, the thirty third, and the thirty fourth chapters of the booke of Job being the substance of forty-nine lectures / delivered at Magnus neare the Bridge, London, by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1661
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Seventhly, This shows us the reason of the various kinds, and several measures of gifts among the sons of men. Men differ not more in the measures and degrees of their outward estates, worldly riches, titles and honours, then they do in the measures and degrees of their inward abilities, wisdom, knowledge, and understanding: men differ not more in the feature and figure of their faces, then in the furniture of their minds. One hath five talents, another two, a third but one. And as the various degrees of the same gift, so diversities of gifts are from the sovereign pleasure of God. The Apostle is large and very distinct in this matter (1 Cor. 12.4, 8, 9, 11.) There are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit; to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge by the same S••rit, to another prophecy, to another discerning of Spirits, to another divers kinds of tongues, &c. But all these worketh that one and the self-same Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he will. It is only the will of the Spirit, the will of God which makes this division and diversification of gifts among men. And as the Apostle showeth here the rise or spring of all to be from God, so he had showed that the reason and intendment of all this is the benefit of men (v. 7.) The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. What ever your gift is God hath given it for profit and use. One hath skill in sciences, another in languages, one is more ⟨p. 60⟩acute, another more solid, one hath a stronger judgement, another a quicker fancy and a more searching invention, One is best at an argument to convince the understanding, another at a motive to quicken the affections; one can confute an error and state a Controversy well, and another can best discover sin, and convince the Conscience; one hath weight of matter, but is slow of speech, another hath a fluent tongue, but is less material; a third is both; but all to profit withal. Such a Character was given of those three Eminent men in the beginning of the reformation,1 Luther, Erasmus, and Melanchthon; Luther had matter and not words, he did not affect any exactness of stile or speech; Erasmus had words at will, but less weight of matter; Melanchthon was full in both there was a concurrence or complication of many eminent gifts in him.