...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...

...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...

...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 battle? 9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by 197 the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known...

...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...

...only without any pains to search for it, but, as it were, whether he will or not !' " St. Paul says, " If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ? So likewise ye, except ye utter words by the tongue, easy to be understood, how shall it be known...

...We maintain that it is an essential part of a warning that a specific time should be given — " for if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" God does not ensnare a people. The Lord's appearing shall come as a snare on all them that dwell...

...to be understood by and to edify those that hear me, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ? And if I pray, and those that are present understand not the meaning of the voice, how shall they...

...error, he dare not conceal his dissent ; nor against any vice, however popular, can fail to bear his prompt and unequivocal testimony. The minister of...tamed, and mangled, before it can reach the conscience 1 As well may the Bible be n riddle, or a dream, as the herald a knave. He can fritter down itsx doctrines...

...refer you to the 14th chapter of the 1st Epistle to the Corinthians, where St. Paul says, verse 8 ; " If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ? 9 ; So likewise you, except you utter by the tongue plain speech, how shall it be known what is spoken...