..."the sounding brass and tinkling symbal,") if no one derived instruction or advantage from them. " If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" And for the same reason, if you attend not to the meaning of the words, nor apply them, where they...

...harp, except they give a 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 battle1? 9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it...

...HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY TRACTS FOR THE TIMES. MEMBERS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. VOL. I. FOR 1833-4. " If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" LONDON: JPRINTED FOR JG & F. RIV1NGTON, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, AND WATERLOO PLACE, TALL MALL: &...

...rhetorical skill. The former fault lies in the thought, the latter in the expression. St. Paul says, ' And even things without life, giving sound, whether pipe...uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ? So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue, words easy to be understood, how shall it be known...

...something more, must pass for nothing in the account of Christian worship. For, as an apostle says, "unless they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped ?" — ".If I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speakelh, a barbarian ; and...

...And, That men worship God in a language which they understand. Common sense itself teaches this : " Things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sound, how shall it he known what is piped or harped ;"f so that it follows " If I know not the meaning...

...to sound the tocsin of alarm, and put you on your guard. And I hope I have sounded it distinctly. " For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" " He, that hath ears to hear, let him hear.'.' Fare ye well, Brethren ; I have written you this...

...have nothing certain to guide us, but be subject to be " carried about with every wind of doctrine." " For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?"f I can "of sincerity — in the sight of God," say, with the apostle of the Gentiles, that " my...

...shall speak to you either by * revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine ? 7 And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the ь sounds, how shall it be known I. CORINTHIANS. « Ver. 26. Ь Or, tuntt. Edificth the church.'] Speaketh...

...what truth is, and in which sect it may be found ? Who, as St. Paul has asked in a different matter, " if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" (1 Cor. 14. 8.) If the apostles had suffered preachers to go forth, saying some, I am of Paul, and...