...except they give a due distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8. For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle? 9. So likewise, except ye utter by the tongue words that cm be understood, how shall it be known what...

...contrary, purposes. — Remarkable, in this case, is that very striking passage, 1 Cor. xiv. 8, 9. For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the bailie ? So likewise ye, except yK utter by the tongue, words easy to be understood, how shall it be...

...HUMILIATION AND PRAYER, O3f ACCOUNT OF THE AIABMINO ASPECT OF DITINE PBOTIDEITCE TO OCH CODNTBT. Jf the trumpet give an uncertain sound who shall prepare himself to the battle ? 1 COBISTHIAHS Tiy. 8. 8ERMON XIV. JEREMIAH V. 29. Shall not my soul be avcngcdon such a nation as...

...uncertain sound, who shall prépare himself to thé battle '. 9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by thé tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken ? for je shall speak into thé air. 10 There are, it may be, so niany kinds of voices in thé world, and...

...should shine forth in all the world. " Cry out aloud; lift up thy voice as a trumpet." (Isai. Iviii.) If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ? When God had called Jeremiah to the office of a prophet, and said (ch.'i.), " Thou shnltgo to all...

...what is piped or harped ? For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle ? So likewise ye, except ye utter by the...understood, how shall it be known what is spoken ? For ye will speak unto the air." It is, I grant, extremely mortifying to be convinced of the inutility of...

...preacher be deficient in knowledge, fidelity, and zeal, the people may perish in their iniquities ; for «if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, « who shall prepare himself to the battle ?' Surely the possibility of t'le loss of a single soul, through the minister's misconduct in the awful...

...demonstration of the Spirit and of power." " For," says he, addressing himself to the same people, " except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken ?" Some darken counsel, by uttering words without knowledge ; having confused notions themselves, their...

...suicide, renounces earth to forfeit heaven." once in the Arian chapel, at Crediton, from the text, " If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ? " But it \vas Mr. Beal who, having, on the invitation of Mr. Samuel Kerslake, gone to preach in Crediton,...

...In addressing those who had the gift of tongues, the Apostle Paul thus expressed himself: " Unless ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be KNOWN what is spoken 1" \ Cor. xiv. 9.— But if this expression apply with so much force to words which are used by mortals...