...Tract 90, I do not hesitate to say, that they appear to me to have disregarded their own motto : ' If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle ?' I consider that there is one real meaning, if we could but discover it, whether of a passage of...

...in Tract 90, I do not hesitate to say, that they appear to me to have disregarded their own motto: ' If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle ?' I consider that there is one real meaning, if we could but discover it, whether of a passage of...

...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...

...has renstated herself supreme over these once Protestant realms? fo, let us rather sound the alarm ; for " if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle," for ,he final combat between truth and error ? To be silent when jrror is openly making its way, is...

...walls of Oxford, have rung through the utmost limits of our land ; then arose the memorable question, " If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle ? " Not Thames alone, or Medway, but " Humber loud that keeps the Scythian's name," re-echoed to the...

...to do expressly thus ; and when we hear the same duty pressed by another, he directeth otherwise. ' If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the' spiritual 'warfare?'" (1 Cor. xiv. 8.) ANSWER 1. Those that ordinarily ask this question, do not do...

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

...necessary in the case of any positive-ordinance) that the details should be no less distinctly specified. For "if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle?" And accordingly in those Churches which do retain Fasting among their public-ordinances, all tlie particulars...

...excellent character is the Bible, if we have no means given us by which to understand or interpret it ? 'If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle ?' To give up the one sense of Scripture, which the church teaches, is ultimately almost to give up...

...For the ten years referred to, they have been mustering their forces under this expressive motto—" If the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle ?" Such, in our day, are the gentlemen of the old learning. Now, notwithstanding this singular motto,...