e voices in the world, and none of them is without fignifica tion. 11. Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I fhall be unto him that fpeaketh, a barbarian, and he that speaketh fhall be a barbarian unto me. 12. Even fo ye, for as much as ye are zealous offpiritual gifts [Gr. Spirits] feek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church. 13. Wherefore let him that fpeaketh in an unknown tongue, pray that he may interpret. 14. For if I pray in an un known tongue, my fpirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful. 15. What is it then? I will pray with the fpirit, and I will pray with the understanding alfo: I will ffing with the fpirit, and I will fing with the understanding alfo. 16. Elfe when thou shalt blefs with the fpirit, how fhall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned, fay Amen at thy giving of thanks, feeing he understandeth not what thou fayft? 17. For thou verily giveft thanks well, but the other is not edified. 18. I thank my God, I fpeak with tongues more than you all: 19. Yet in the church! had rather fpeak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others alfo, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue. i 20. Brethren, be not children in understanding: how beit in malice be ye children, but in understanding bemen [Gr. perfect, or, of a ripe age]. 21. e 13. I Cor. 12. 1o. To another interpretation of Tongues. 5 15. f Eph. 5. 19. Speaking to your felves in Pfalms, and Hymns, and fpiritual Songs, finging and making melody in your Heart to the Lord. † Col. 3. 16. Let the Word of Chrift dwell in you richly in all Wifdom; teaching and admonishing one another in Pfalms, 1o and Hymns, and spiritual Songs, fing ing with Grace in your Hearts to. the Lord. † Pfal. 47. 7. God is the King of all the Earth, fing ye praifes with 15 understanding. 16. Chron. 16. 36. Bleffed be the Lord God of Ifrael for ever and ever and all the People faid, Amen, and praifed the Lord. Pial 20 106 48. Bleffed be the Lord God of Ifrael from everlafting to everlafting and let all the People fay, Amen.- i h In 20. † Pfal. 131. 2. Sueely I have behaved and quieted my felf as a Child that is weaned of his Mother: my Soul is even as a weaned Child. Mat. 11.25. Thou haft hid thefe things from the Wife and Prudent, and haft revealed them unto Babes. † Mat. 18 3. Verily I fay unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little Children, ye thall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. Rom. 16. 19. I would have you wife unto that which is good, and fimple concerning evil Eph. 4. 14. That we henceforth be no more Children, toffed to and fro, and car ried about with every wind of Do&trine. k . Mat. 18, 3. The Words above. t1 Cor. 2. 6. Howbeit we peak Wifdom among them that are perfect. n 22. Where In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips, will I fpeak unto this people and yet for all that will they not hear me, faith the Lord. fore tongues are for a fign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophefying ferveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe. 23. If therefore the whole church be come together into one place, and all fpeak with tongues, and there come in those that are unlearned, or unbelievers, " will they not say that ye are mad? 24. But if all prophefie, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all: 25. And thus are the fecrets of his heart made manifeft; and fo falling down on his face, he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth. 26. How is it then, brethren? when ye come toge ther, every one of you hath a pfalm, P hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done to edifying. 27. If any man fpeak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the moft by three, and that by courfe; and let one interpret. 28. But if there be no interpreter, let him keep filence in the church; and let him fpeak to himself, and to God. 29. Let the Prophets fpeak two or three, and let the other judge. 30. If any thing be revealed to another that fitteth by, let the first hold his peace. 31. For ye may all prophefie one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted. 32. And the fpirits of the prophets are fubject to the prophets. 33. 1 21. Deut. 28. 49. The Lord fhall bring a Nation against thee from far. A Nation whose Tongue, thou shalt not understand. Ifa. 28. 11, 12. With ftammering Lips, and another Tongue, will he fpeak to this People. To whom he faid, This is the Reft wherewith ye may caufe the Weary to reft, and this is the Refreshing: yet they would not hear. Joh. 10. 34. Is it not written in your Law, I faid, Ye are Gods? 23. n A&s 2. 13. Others mocking, faid, Thefe Men are full of new Wine. 5 I 4 S For -and they fhall fall down unto 25. tlfa. 45. 14. -Men of Stature fhall come over unto the, phecyings. a с For God is not the author of * confufion [Gr. tumult, or, unquietness], but of" peace, as in all churches of the faints. 34. Let your women keep filence in the church: for it is not permitted unto them to fpeak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as alfo faith the law. 35. And if they will learn any thing, let them ask their husbands at home: for it is a fhame for women to speak in the church. 36. What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? 37. If any man think himself to be a prophet, or fpiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you, are the commandments of the Lord. 38. But if any man be ignorant, let him be ignorant. 39 Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophefie, and forbid not to fpeak with tongues. 40. Let all things be done decently, and in order. CHAP. XV. a OREOVER, brethren, I declare unto you the MR gofpel which I preached unto you, which alfoye Lave received, and wherein ye stand; 2. By which allo ye are faved if ye keep in memory [Or, hold faft]*what I preached unto you [Gr. by what fpeech,] unlefs ye have believed in vain. 3. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I alfo received, how that Chrift died for our fins according to the fcriptures: i 33. it u See on Mar. 9. 55. 1 Cor. 11. 16. See on I Cor.7 17. b 7 34 †Tim. 2. 11, 12. See on i Cor 11. 3. 18. © † Eph. 5. 23. † Col. 3. See on 2 f Luk 10. 16. He that heareth you, heareth me.— i Cor. 7. 25. Concerning Virgins. I have no 15 Commandment of the Lord.- 39. Thef. 5. 19, Quench pot the Spirit. CHAP. XV. a AЯs 18. 8. -Many of the 20 h buried, and that he rofe again the third day according to the fcriptures 5. And that he was feen of Cephas, then of the twelve. 6. After that he was feen of above (1) five hundred brethren at once: of whom the greater part remain unto this prefent, but fome are fallen afleep. 7. After that, he was feen of James, then of all the apoftles. 8. And laft of all he was, k feen of me alfo, as of *one born out of due time [Or, an abortive]. 9. For I am the leaft of the apostles, that am not meet, to be called an apoftle, because I perfecuted the church of God. i but I 10. But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was beftowed upon me, was not in vain; laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of † Pfal. 16. 10. Thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell; neither wilt thou fuffer thine holy One to fee Corruption. Ifa. 3. 10. -He fhall fee his Seed, he fhall prolong his Days, and the pleasure of the Lord fhall profper in his Hand. Hof. 6. 2. After two Days will he revive us, in the third Day he will raife us up, and we fhall live in his Sight. Acts 2. 31. He [David] feeing this before, fpake of the Refurrection of Christ, that his Soul was not left in Hell, neither his Fleh did fee corruption. h 5. Mar. 16. 14. + Joh. 20. 19. Acts 10. 41. See on 24.34, 36. Luk. 7. 5 God 8. k t1 Cor. 9. 1. See on A&s 22. 14. 9. Eph. 3 8. Unto me, who am less than the least of all Saints, is this Grace given.mt. Acts 9. 1. † Gal. I. 13. † 1 Tim. 1. 13. See on Acts 8, 3. 10. Eph. 3.7, 8. See on n Rom. 1. 5. 10 I Cor. 9. 19. Though I am 15 Luk. 24. 50. He led them out as far as Bethany: and he lift 20 up his Hands and bleffed them. P Mat. 10. 20. It is not ye that fpeak (1) Upon the Apostles return to Jerufalem after our Lord's Afcenfion, it is faid, As 1. 15. That the Number of the Difciples were about an Hundred and twenty; it may therefore be demanded, How can our Lord be here faid to have been feen before his Afcenfion by five hundred Brethren at once? I answer. The one Hundred and twenty, Acts 1. 15. does not take in all who believed in Chrift, but is to be understood of thofe only who were at that time affembled together. For queftionlefs our Lord might, if he had pleafed, have appeared to feveral Thoufand of his Difciples For we read, Job. 4. 1. That Jefus made and Baptized more Difciples than John. And Joh. 10. 42. That many believed on him. And Job. 10. 4. That among the chief Rulers many believed on him. To mention no more, fo fenfible were the Pharifees of the mighty Increase of his Difciples, that they complain, Joh. 12. 19. That the World was gone after him. And this removes the Difficulty. God which was with me. 11. Therefore, whether it were I or they, fo we preach, and fo ye believed. 12. Now if Chrift be preached that he rofe from the dead, how fay fome among you, that there is no refurrection of the dead? 13. But if there be no refurrection of the dead, then is Chrift not rifen. 14. And if Chrift be not rifen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is alfo vain. 15. Yea, and we are found falfe witneffes of God; becaufe we have teftified of God, that he raifed up Chrift: whom he raifed not up, if fo be that the dead rife not. 16. For if the dead rife not, then is not Chrift raifed: 17. And if Chrift be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your fins. 18. Then they alfo which are fallen afleep in Chrift, are perished. 19. If in this life only we have hope in Chrift, we are of all men moft" miferable. 20. But now a is Chrift rifen from the dead, and (1) become the firft-fruits of them that flept. 21. live, ye fhall live also. 1 Thef 4. 14. If we believe that Jefus died and rofe again, even fo them alfo which fleep in Jefus will God bring 5 with him. fpeak, but the Spirit of your Fa- 13. Joh. 14. 19. Becaufe I 15 20 r 15. See on A&ts 2. 24. 17. $ A&ts 3. 25.· God having raifed up his Son Jefus, fent him to bless you, in turning away every one of you from his Iniquities, Rom. 4. 25. Who -was raised again for our Juftification. u 19. 2 Tim. 3. 12. All that will live godly in Chrift Jefus, fhall fuf fer Perfecution. 3 20. t Pet. 1. 3. Bleffed be the God, and Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, which according to his a bundant Mercy, hath begotten us again unto a lively Hope, by the Refurrection of Jefus Christ from the Dead. b+ Col. 1. 18. Rev. 1. 5. See on Rom. 8. 29. our (1) There were others raised from the Dead before our Lord; as the Man who touched the Bones of Elisha, 2 Kings 13, 21. and the Widow's Son, and Lazarus, whom our Lord raifed; but this notwithstanding, Lord may be faid to be the First-fruits of the Refurrection; for these role to die again, but our Lord was the first that rofe from the Dead, or Grave, mever to return to it again. As the future Harvest was bleffed and fanctif ed |