...Without this, all might become inextricable confusion and wide dismay. So also in the Christian camp : for, if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ? 1 Cor. xiv. 8. A battle of most tremendous import and of eternal consequence, does most assuredly...

...harp, 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...

...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,...

...thereof should shine forth in all the world. Cry out aloud; lift up thy voice as a trumpet, Isa. 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, chap. i. Thou shall go to all that...

...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...

...harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped? 8 9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by 197 the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known...

...and harpers in divinity are only janglers, not knowing what they say, nor whereof they affirm. " And if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ? " The day of battle and war is sure to come here or at the day of judgment ; but no preparation to...

...by certain variations of sound the particulars of this command ; as it is said, (1 Cor. xiv. 8,) " If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" The trumpet, therefore, in the hands of these angels, may be supposed to represent an instrument...

...holy mountain." It is to be blown promptly, distinctly, faithfully. " For if," says the Apostle, " the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" The woe appended to an unfaithful discharge of this part of ministerial responsibility is most fearful...

...has reinstated herself supreme over these once Protestant realms? No, let us rather sound the alarm ; for " if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle," for the final combat between truth and error ? To be silent when error is openly making...