...and destruction, and is the highway to hell. It was on this account that St. Paul warned Titus : " A man that is an. heretic, afte.r the first and second admonition, reject." Titus iii. 10. But martyrdom, (although it is bitter to flesh and blood, and is, moreover, a fiery...

...whose mouths are to be stopped, who are to be rebuked sharply that they may be sound in the faith. A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, he is to reject. He is to exhort and rebuke with all authority, and let no man despise him. In these...

...might avoid them, and have no sort of conversation with them. I would here observe, the apostle Paul says, " A man that is an heretic after the first and second admonition reject." It becomes us to avoid all erroneous men : to have no fellowship with them. It becomes us to avoid...

...after the Spirit ? What is the meaning of schism ? What the apostolic discipline which ordains thus: "A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition reject; knowing that such an one is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself," being excommunicated...

...generation. But let us see further into St. Titus's commission, and letters of orders, and institution: "A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject."' Cognizance of heretical pravity, and animadversion against the heretic himself, is most plainly concredited...

...Christians they are to be excommunicated and cast off. For this we have the express warrant of Scripture. "A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such, is subverted and sinneth." The conscientious Catholic from principle,...

...speak, and exhort and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee. ' And again, (iii. ch. 10.) ' A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject. Now these passages prove one of two positions. Manifest it is, that Timothy and Titus were to receive...

...wanting, and [that t/tou shouldest} ordain Elders in every city, as I had appointed thee" — and again, " a man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, [do thou] reject :"h ordination, admonition, and rejection, (or degradation and excommunication,) are...

..." withdraw " himself from disorderly and discreditable professors ; Titus was commanded to " reject a man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition ;" and the angels of the churches of Pergamos and Thyatira are censured for allowing false, corrupt,...

...epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed," ver. 14. To Titus he says, " A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject," ch. iii. 10; which implies that heretics who persisted in their errors. were to be excluded from the...