...ablest sermons. Amongst those listened to with peculiar interest, was a series on the text : " For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ;" which, with many more of his best discourses, were unfortunately lost, by being lent to a clerical...

...doubtful apprehensions of the truth, will utterly disqualify us to become instructors of others. " If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?" (1 Cor. xiv. 8.) Christians often allow natural affection to neutralize their religious convictions....

...correspondents, or for extracts which we may select, especially in poetical productions !" — But we may ask, " if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" He then proceeds to say — " We have no reason to believe in the immortality of the mind. As far...

...ablest sermons. Amongst those listened to with peculiar interest, was a series on the text : " For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ;" which, with many more of his best discourses, were unfortunately lost, by being lent to a clerical...

...ablest sermons. Amongst those listened to with peculiar interest, was a series on the text : " For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ;" which, with many more of his best discourses, were unfortunately lost, by being lent to a clerical...

...salvation of our souls " (1 Pet. i. 9). And agreeable to these things is that inquiry of St. Paul, " If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ? So likewise you, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, evV^ov Xifyo>>, how shall...

...with life and reason, and in spiritual gifts, ought one to make significancy an object. Ver. 8. For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ? The Gift of Tongues supposes an Interpreter. 491 Thus, from things merely ornamental he carries on...

...the way to heaven. 25. The worm is the best earthly preacher on vanity. ON 1 CORINTHIANS XIV. 8. " If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle." THE sound of the trumpet is, we know, very frequently used by the inspired writers of the blessed bible,...

...should shine forth in all the world. " Cry out aloud ; lift up thy voice as a trumpet." (Isaiah 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 shall go to...

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