This the man himself, after two public notices, admits and involves in the very act of persisting.

However confident as to the truth of the doctrine he has set up, he cannot, after two public admonitions, be ignorant that it is a doctrine contrary to the articles of his communion with the Church that has admitted him; and in regard of his alienation from that communion, he is necessarily [Greek: autokatakritos],--though in his pride of heart he might say with the man of old, "And I banish you." Ib.p.

123.
-- as soon as the miraculous gifts, or gift of discerning spirits, ceased.
No one point in the New Testament perplexes me so much as these (so called) miraculous gifts.

I feel a moral repugnance to the reduction of them to natural and acquired talents, ennobled and made energic by the life and convergency of faith;--and yet on no other scheme can I reconcile them with the idea of Christianity, or the particular supposed, with the general known, facts.

But, thank God! it is a question which does not in the least degree affect our faith or practice.