These tastes of Heavenly things are given to servants as well as to sons, and differ from saving grace in its subject, original, efficacy, property, duration, event, and final issue. In its subject. Saving grace being peculiar to the elect only, and is no wider than election itself. In its original. In its efficacy.
Gifts are but as dead graces, but graces are living gifts.
In its property or nature. For the eminency of gifts, and the prevalency of sin, a form of godliness and the power of sin may dwell and consist together. In its duration. The greatest flood of spiritual gifts may decay to less than a drop, whereas the least drop of saving grace shall increase to a river. In its event and final issue.