I. Spiritual gifts conferred on individuals.
II. Spiritual union of the Church.

Let us distinguish between the Spirit and the gifts of the Spirit: by
the Spirit, the apostle meant the vital principle of new life from
God, common to all believers--the animating Spirit of the Church of
God; by the gifts of the Spirit, he meant the diversities of form in
which He operates on individuals; its influence varied according to
their respective peculiarities and characteristics. In the
twenty-eighth verse of this chapter a full catalogue of gifts is
found; looking at them generally, we discover two classes into which
they may be divided--the first are natural, the second are
supernatural: the first are those capacities which are originally
found in human nature--personal endowments of mind, a character
elevated and enlarged by the gift of the Spirit; the second are those
which were created and called into existence by the sudden approach of
the same influence.

Just as if the temperature of this Northern hemisphere were raised
suddenly, and a mighty tropical river were to pour its fertilizing
inundation over the country, the result would be the impartation of a
vigorous and gigantic growth to the vegetation already in existence,
and at the same time the development of life in seeds and germs which
had long lain latent in the soil, incapable of vegetation in the
unkindly climate of their birth. Exactly in the same way, the flood of
a Divine life, poured suddenly into the souls of men, enlarged and
ennobled qualities which had been used already, and at the same time
_developed_ powers which never could have become apparent in the cold,
low temperature of natural life.