"Hope shall change to glad fruition, Faith to sight, and prayer to praise." p. 8, Para. 2, [1SG].
They are to cease when that which is perfect is come--when we shall no longer see through a glass darkly, but face to face. The perfect day, when the just are made perfect, and see as they are seen, is yet in the future. It is true that the Man of Sin, when arrived at arrived at manhood, had put away such "childish things" as prophecies, tongues and knowledge, and also the faith and hope and charity of the primitive Christians. But there is nothing in the text to show that GOD designed to take away the gifts which he had set in the church, till the consummation of her faith and hope--till the surpassing glory of the immortal state should eclipse the most brilliant displays of spiritual power and knowledge, ever manifested in this mortal state. p. 8, Para. 3, [1SG].
The objection founded upon 2 Tim. iii, 16, which some have gravely presented deserves no more than a passing remark. If Paul, in saying that the Scriptures were able to make the man of GOD perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works, meant that nothing more should be written by inspiration, why was he, at that moment, adding to those Scriptures? At least, why did he not drop the pen as soon as that sentence was written? And why did John, thirty years afterwards, write the book of Revelation? This book contains another text which is quoted to prove the abolition of spiritual gifts. p. 9, Para. 1, [1SG].
"For I testify to every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add to these things, GOD shall add to him the plagues that are written in this book. And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, GOD shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. Rev. xxii, 18, 19. p. 9, Para. 2, [1SG].
From this text it is claimed that GOD, who at sundry times, and in divers manners, spake in time past to the fathers by the prophets, and, in the commencement of the gospel day, by JESUS and his apostles, hath hereby solemnly promised never to communicate any thing more to man in that way. Hence all prophesying after this date must be false.