 | Baptists - 1829 - 894 pages
...which to regulate his public instructions, than that which ia couched in the Apostle Paul's remark, " In the church I had rather speak five words with my...also, than ten thousand words in' an unknown tongue." The character and state of a congregation, will have influence apon a judicious minister's selection... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - Reformation - 1829 - 440 pages
...to the progress of knowledge. The archbishop had appealed to the authority of St. Paul, who said, " In the church I had rather speak five words with my...also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue." But the cardinal pleaded that the times were changed, and appealed to St. Peter. To put the sacred... | |
 | Baptists - 1829 - 428 pages
...which to regulate his public instructions, than that which is couched in the Apostle Paul's remark, " In the church I had rather speak five words with my...also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue." The character and state of a congregation, will have influence upon a judicious minister's selection... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1829 - 930 pages
...deeply and irresistibly on their minds the impress of his own. ' I would rather,' says St. Paul, ' speak five words with my understanding, that by my...also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.' And how inuch better, in point of effect, are those wordt which only play over the surface of the mind,... | |
 | William Russell Macdonald - Anti-Catholic literature - 1829 - 286 pages
...giving of thanks, seeing he understandetk not what thou sayest ? In the CHUECH / had rather speak Jive words with my understanding, that by my voice I might...also, than ten thousand words in an UNKNOWN TONGUE. Brethren, be not children in understanding ; howbeit, in malice be ye children, but in understanding... | |
 | Church of England - 1830 - 548 pages
...understandeth not what thou sayest?" ver. 16. " I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all ; yet, in the church, I had rather speak five words...also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue," ver. 18, 19. Certainly our adversaries are not of St. Paul's mind, who had rather speak ten thousand... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1830 - 1120 pages
...givest thanks well, but the other is not edified. I thank my God, I speak with tongues more than ye all; yet in the Church I had rather speak five words with...also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue."* acquainted. And to convince us of the little value the Apostle set upon this gift of praying by the... | |
 | Rufus Anderson - Greece - 1830 - 340 pages
...instruction, should all imbibe the sentiments of the great apostle to the Gentiles, who nobly says — / would rather speak five words with my understanding, that...also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. I conclude this chapter with a brief notice of the celebrated colony of priests at mount Athos. This... | |
 | 1831 - 982 pages
...interpret.. ..If I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful one consent began to make excuse. The first said...go and see it : I pray thee have me excused. And These passages, extracted from the xii th and xiv th chapters of the First Epistle to the Corinthians,... | |
 | John Mockett Cramp - Council of Trent - 1831 - 468 pages
...authority of the church. Such an instance of modesty rarely occurs.13 The apostle Paul nobly said, " In the church I had rather speak five words with my...also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue." 1 Cor. xiv. 19. The custom of celebrating- mass in the Latin language only stands in direct contradiction... | |
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Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. 
