Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 edition. Excerpt: ... ON SPIRITUAL GIFTS. THE Second Part of the Dispensation of the Spirit for the Edification of the Church, consists in his Communication x>f Spiritual Gifts to the members of it, as their places and stations therein may require. By his work of saving grace, he makes all the elect ' living stones;' and by his communication of spiritual gifts, he builds those stones into a temple for the habitation of the living God;--he unites them into one mystical body, under the Lord Christ, as a head of influence, by faith and love; and he unites them as an organical body under him, as a head of rule, by gifts and spiritual abilities. Their nature is one and the same by grace; their use is various by gifts. Every one is a part of the body of Christ, by the same animating Spirit of grace: but one is an eye, another a hand, another a foot in the body, by virtue of peculiar gifts;--
