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Ob. IF I come to you speaking with tongues [unknown] what shall it profit you? 1 Cor. 14. 6. And again, If then I know not the vertue of the voice, I shall be to him to whom I speak barbarous, and he that speaketh barbarous to me, vers. 11. And a third time, So you also speak∣ing with a tongue, unless you utter manifest speech, how shall that be known that is said, for you shall be speaking into the ayre? vers. 9.
Answ. S. Paul in those places speaks only against the publike use of strange tongues mi∣raculously inspired, and not intelligible, but by the special gift of interpretation, not against tongues gotten by industry, and wel under∣stood by the more learned sort of all Nations, such as Greek and Latine are▪ Besides, he only speaks there against speech addressed to the people by way of exhortation, and instructi∣on, in strange tongues, not against speech in unknown tongues, which is addressed to God only by way of prayer, such as the publike Li∣turgie is; that he allowes, at least in general termes, as you have heard. That this is S. Pauls scope and mind, appears partly by the very texts objected; for it followes in the first of them, What shall I profit you, unless I speak to you in revelation, or in knowledge, or in