...understand all mysteries ; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains ; yet, if I have not charity, I am become as a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal." Thus you see, that "without charity, even faith itself is nugatory. I say faith itself, for that faith...

...all surprising, that the Apostle Paul said, "Though 1 speak, with the tongues of men and angels, and have not CHARITY, I am become as a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal, " but, it is truly astonishing, that men calling tuemselves'Christians, and professing to be the followers...

...T°^'¡",'^.' lent way. Heb.;3:,7; 13 THOUGH I speak with the tongues of men and°9ch-4. '• of angels, and have not charity, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift o^"aprophecy, and understand all mys-ach. «. s, 9, teries, and all knowledge...

...unacceptable to God, as Paul teaches, 1 Cor. xiii. " Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity, I am become as a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal," &c. Grace is divided into external and internal. External grace is that which affects a man only outwardly,...

...but outside Christians : 1 Cor. xiii. 1, " Though I speak with the tongues of men or of angels, and have not charity, I am become as a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal." — Consider, (2.) That they may be praying persons, and so carry religion into their families, and...

...charity edifieth ;" and again, chap, xiii. " If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal." That boy who is so smart and clever, almost as an angel, in giving sharp answers at a competitive examination,...

...possible, could not be substituted for charity. " Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, and have not charity, I am become as a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal." The apostle goes farther: Though possessed of the highest endowments, natural and acquired, these could...

...(In 1 Cor. xii. ). He says, for example, " Though T speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal." But who does not see that he is turning the keen edge of an admonition against himself, in order that...

...fool. Also in this Simile of St. Paul, — " Though I speak with the tongues of Men and of Angels, and have not Charity, I am become as a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal." The FIGUBE, however, is often extended, as in the following Scriptural Extract : — " I will be as...

...that work iniquity." (Matt. vii. 2223.) And again : " If I speak the tongues of men and of Angels, and have not charity, I am become as a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal." (I Corinth. xiii. 1.) And: "I chastise my body and bring it into subjection, lest, perhaps, when I...