Two discourses concerning the Holy Spirit, and His work the one, Of the Spirit…

§ 1. THE Second part of the Dispensation of the Spirit in order unto the perfecting of the New Creation, or the Edification of the Church, consists in his communication of Spiritual Gifts unto the Members of it, according as their places and stations therein do require. By his Work of Saving Grace (which in other Discourses we have given a large account of) he makes all the Elect Living Stones, and by his communication of Spiritual Gifts he fashions and builds those Stones into a Temple for the Living God to dwell in. He spiritually unites them into one Mystical Body under the Lord ⟨p. 106⟩Christ as an Head of Influence by Faith and Love; and he unites them into an Organical Body under the Lord Christ as an Head of Rule, by Gifts and Spiritual Abilities. Their Nature is made one and the same by Grace; their Use is various by Gifts. Every one is a part of the Body of Christ, of the Essence of it by the same quickening, animating Spirit of Grace; but one is an Eye, another an Hand, another a Foot in the Body, by virtue of peculiar Gifts. For unto every one of us is given Grace according to the measure of the Gift of Christ, Eph. 4. 7.

§ 1. THE Second part of the Dispensation of the Spirit in order unto the perfecting of the New Creation, or the Edification of the Church, consists in his communication of Spiritual Gifts unto the Members of it, according as their places and stations therein do require. By his Work of Saving Grace (which in other Discourses we have given a large account of) he makes all the Elect Living Stones, and by his communication of Spiritual Gifts he fashions and builds those Stones into a Temple for the Living God to dwell in. He spiritually unites them into one Mystical Body under the Lord ⟨p. 106⟩Christ as an Head of Influence by Faith and Love; and he unites them into an Organical Body under the Lord Christ as an Head of Rule, by Gifts and Spiritual Abilities. Their Nature is made one and the same by Grace; their Use is various by Gifts. Every one is a part of the Body of Christ, of the Essence of it by the same quickning, animating Spirit of Grace; but one is an Eye, another an Hand, another a Foot in the Body, by vertue of peculiar Gifts. For unto every one of us is given Grace according to the measure of the Gift of Christ,