» Knowledge or underſtanding of the thing as to t ſp:aketh, 1s neceſſary to the improvement of Pl _ _ dreadt a means to promote Faith and Love ; for how Aral what ”_ I0 inthe leaſt promote, either my Faith in God or Chuift nl in the to him, if I underſtand nor what they fay ? Roy. ro % _ x
s ip - 'hz thar ſpeaketh in an unknown Tongue, may (i SRP, -T | what he ſays) have his own heart afex&ed wt wary melt Speech 'it is not poſſible lre ſhould affe& another. » Bur hethar preach t founde In an intelligible Language and ſtiJe to all that hear him. ha = ther. (what in him iieth ro edifie all thoſe rhat hear him. Sas {0 as nt
5 I would that ye all ſpake with tongues o, hy re | ge ther that ye propheſied : for greater 7s he that prophe , fieth, then he that ſpeaketh with tongues , excert Iſhall
|he interpret p, that the Church may receive edifj- ſheake INg 4.
o I would in this place ſignifiesno more than either 7 y/4pin ht or IT could be content that you could a!l ſpeak with Tarn # ary « God pleaſed. Ir ſhould ſeem by this ſpeech of the Apoſtles thi _e _ this ſpeaking in unknown Tongues, was that extraordinary (if og on which, above all others, this Church, or the ſeveral Members of is - þ wh were proud and ambitious of, S. Par! rells them, thatif Gol e har | pleaſed, he wiſhed rhey could do ir. p But of the two, he rather s. I wiſhed them all a power to open and apply the holy Scripture; « ritual mens underſtandings and conſcience. He addeth thereafon, he. theChi cauſe it was a more honourable gift and work, and made themtry ly greater. But he adds, Except he interpret, for then he propheſ, e Th ed alſo. q That, faith he, the Church, that is, thoſe that heard hin very am propheſying, might be edified. Whence we learn, 1. That ſi, Tranſla tual growth, and proficiency in Divine knowledge and havitr of Graz 4 ob ought ro be the great end of all Preachers ; and whoſo doth nor the Lic propound this as hisend, abuſeth his Office, andrrilles in a Py. of thoſe pit.. 2. That whoſo maketh this his end, will make it his buſingh them, , ro the beſt of his skill, ro uſe ſuch a language; ſtile, and method edifying as the generality of his Hearers may beſt underſtand; for with. | I nt! out their underſtanding, there can be no edifying. And this l:ts a wry us ſee the vanity of uſing much Latine, or Greek, or a lofty flile _ x or a Critick Method, not obvious to poor people in popular Ser. 4 Brea mons, where the people underſtand not thoſe languages; or Phi. Cnarge 0 lolophical ratiocinations, before a plain people that underltand 13 \ none of theſe things, Such preaching is neither juſtifiable by Rea- tongue ſon, nor by the praCtice either of Chriſt, or his Apoſtles. :
6 Now, brethren, it I come unto you ſpeaking ae 6s with tongues, what ſhall I profit you r, except I hall po wag ſpeakto you, either by * revelation s, or by knowledge, ſpeak, a or by prophecy «, or by dodrine ? w. Languag
ry God hath given me an ability to ſpeak with Tongues; ſupp!ſ Let him | I ſhould come to you ſpeaking in the Arabian, Scyrhian, or Paritiat Ithink t] [anzuage, what good would it do you ? How ſhouid it any way ptt nughr ſo1 fir you ? 5s except I ſhould ſpeak to you, either by Revelation, &, ſo bad x Some make theſe four things diſtin& each from other ; other might be think, that they all ſignifie no more, thn rhe interpreting mete terprer, tioned in the former verſe. Thoſe who dittiaguiſh them, fi, mility ery By Revelation is meant the Explication of the Types and Figuresof his place the O!d Teſtament, or ſome ſuch Revelation as John had in Part, Ing the w or the expounding the Myſteries of the Goſpel. 7 By Knowlidg Pening an they underſtand the knowledge of Hiſtory, or any other ordinary Uſtin& gl knowledge. « By Prophecy, the Explication of the difficult Ter Vould ope of Scripture. w By De#rine, catechiſtical or pratical Dorn 14 Fi But theſe are all but uncertain gueſſes ; rhe ſenſe is plainly no mor, prayerh than if I ſhould come ſpeaking with unknown Tongues, and n0 )
way by interpretation make what I fay intelligible unto you. 7 From 7 And even' things without life giving found, wit lawfulneſ; ther pipe, or harp, except they give a diſtin&ion 10 Lean che | ſounds, how ſhall ic be known what is piped, « bebe win harped ? x. | pR- tered, buy
x In the Sounds which are artificially made by the uſcot Wind Machins. } Muſick, or other Muſick, nothing could be underſtood, if Arthal and Tryrt not alſo deviſed a diſtinction in the Sounds ; that one Sound hou an end nej ſignifie one thing, another Sound ſhould fignifie another.th1ing: by ow IS it unleſs the Voice of the Teacher be ſignificant to, and underſt knw ty by the perſon inſtruQed or taught, the Sound is of n9 uſe at all IS here ſai $ For if the trumpet give an uncertain ſound, who —o My 1 {hall prepare himſelf to the batcel ? y. I ys M)
» The Trumpet is made uſe of in Battels, and that variouſly; "" hg thy is uſedto give Soldiers notice to march on againſt che Enemy, ©, >Canr alſo to ſound a Retreat : If there were not a diſtindtion inane I5 W| ſound, and in the other, how ſhould the Soldier know when tos and] wii forward, and when to come back by the ſound of it. 197 ru fng with telligibly to thoſe that hear it, which it could not, if there "mY anding no diſtin&tion in the ſound. " as What
9 So likewiſe you, except ye utter by the tong le Spirit, t
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known W ail %. | : ; « By 26210 Fogauey Is meant words which ſignifie well to thoſe that hear them ; for words may belignificant enough in.themſelves,
* nothing at all ſignificant ro them that hear thzm,being unlear- 4: fuch ſounds of words can contribure nothing to peoples know- ” but are fo much loſt labour. This is a Text that deſerverh oughts of thoſe who affeEt in preaching ; 1f nor the uſe of Languages, yet the uſe of a $7z/e, or Method, which 15 not one of many of thoſe who hear them, underſtand. It js all one to ſpeak 1n in unknown Tongue, as in a ſtile, or method that people do not underſtand ; and truly, ſuch are the generality of Miniſters Hear- that words moſt lignificant in themſelves, and to learned Ears, feaſt ſignificant torhem, being hardeſt to be underſtood : ſoas zorhing of what they ſay, and the Miniſter doth bur , beat the air ( which is a
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