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A Sectional Confession of Faith

Gregory Thaumaturgus

Section 22

About this work

Author: Gregory Thaumaturgus

XXII.

And again, speaking also of the children

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of

Israel

as

baptized

in

the

cloud

and

in

the

sea

,

he

says

:

“

And

they

all

drank

of

the

same

spiritual

drink

:

for

they

drank

of

that

spiritual

Rock

that

followed

them

,

and

that

Rock

was

Christ

.

”

And

again

he

says

:

“

Wherefore

I

give

you

to

understand

,

that

no

man

speaking

by

the

Spirit

of

God

calleth

Jesus

accursed

:

and

that

no

man

can

say

that

Jesus

is

the

Lord

,

but

by

the

Holy

Ghost

.

Now

there

are

diversities

of

gifts

,

but

the

same

Spirit

.

And

there

are

differences

of

administrations

,

but

the

same

Lord

.

And

there

are

diversities

of

operations

,

but

it

is

the

same

God

which

worketh

all

in

all

.

But

the

manifestation

of

the

Spirit

is

given

to

every

man

to

profit

withal

.

For

to

one

is

given

by

the

Spirit

the

word

of

wisdom

;

to

another

the

word

of

knowledge

by

the

same

Spirit

;

to

another

faith

by

the

same

Spirit

;

to

another

the

gifts

of

healing

by

the

same

Spirit

;

to

another

the

working

of

miracles

;

to

another

prophecy

;

to

another

discerning

of

spirits

;

to

another

divers

kinds

of

tongues

;

to

another

the

interpretation

of

tongues

:

but

all

these

worketh

that

one

and

the

selfsame

Spirit

,

dividing

to

every

man

severally

as

He

will

.

For

as

the

body

is

one

,

and

hath

many

members

,

and

all

the

members

of

that

one

body

,

being

many

,

are

one

body

;

so

also

is

Christ

.

For

by

one

Spirit

are

we

all

baptized

into

one

body

.

”

And

again

he

says

:

“

For

if

he

who

comes

preaches

another

Christ

whom

we

have

not

preached

,

or

ye

receive

another

spirit

that

ye

have

received

not

,

or

another

gospel

which

ye

have

not

obtained

,

ye

will

rightly

be

kept

back

.

”

Notes

1
1 Cor. x. 4.
2
1 Cor. xii. 3–13.
3
καλῶς ἂν εἴχεσθε. Referring perhaps to Gal. i. 8, 9.