But all these worketh that one and the selfsame
Spirit,
&c.] Though these gifts, ministrations, and operations, are
so different in themselves, and are bestowed upon different
persons, yet they are all wrought by one and the same Spirit of
God, who is the true Jehovah, and properly God, as these his
works declare; for who, but the most high God, could ever
communicate such gifts to men?
Dividing to every man severally as he will;
giving one man this gift, and another that; imparting such a
measure to one, and such a portion to another, just as seems good
in his sight. For as his special grace in regeneration is
dispensed when and where, and to whom he pleases, signified by
the blowing of the wind where it listeth, ( John 3:8 ) so his gifts,
ordinary and extraordinary, are severally distributed, according
to his sovereign will and pleasure. This is a clear and full
proof of the personality of the Spirit, who is not only
distinguished from his gifts, and the distribution of them, which
is a personal act described to him; but this is said to be done
according to his will, which supposes him an intelligent agent,
capable of choosing and willing; and whose will agrees with the
Father's, and with the Son's.
