...confusion as to justify the application of the Apostle's censure, and to show the cases to be one, " for if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?" (1 Cor. xiv. 8.) While the express and peremptory charge, that if there be no interpreter...

...profit. For how should you profit, by a voice which ye understand not ?" [3.] Ver. 7. Yet even the things without life giving sound, whether pipe or...sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped ? " And why do I say," saith he, " that in our case this is unprofitable, and that only useful, which...

...profit. For how should you profit, by a voice which ye understand not ?" [3.] Ver. 7. Yet even the things without life giving sound, whether pipe or...give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be knoicn what is piped or harped ? " And why do I say," saith he, " that in our case this is unprofitable,...

...with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you by revelation or by knowledge ? And even things without life, giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a dis* John iii. 8. t Ib. iii. 8. t Matt. vii. 9. § 1 Cor. xiii. 10. tinction in the sound, how shall...

...unedifying confusion arises, which is often felt rather to disturb than to aid devotion. If there is " no distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped ?" Except the congregation " utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known...

...Episcopal Church and our Monarchical State) must speak out, and in language not to be misunderstood; for if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for battle ? I look upon the conduct mentioned at the heading of this letter as a species of insanity and political...

...preaching, and of this great plainness of speech in delivering God's word or message, the apostle says, " For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?" The figure of the text may seem to be used by the apostle incidentally, but it is one...

...LaHave, and arrived the following day in time to get ihe people together for meeting. I preached from, ' If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle ?' After having preached ten times to them, many of them accompanied me to the shore, where...

...be therefore clear, distinct, and stirring, as the .«.omul of a trumpet, but a well-blown trampet, for if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle — that battle which is ever fighting, ever bite fought, as we go forward (lisp wieg...

...against their enemy, and a martial spirit in the bosoms of his countrymen. In this he never faltered, " for, if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" But in thesf impassioned strains of war, it is beautiful to perceive the poet's heart...