 | William Carus Wilson - Theology - 1851 - 518 pages
...ardent spirit has believed it withBut we must remember that assertions are not facts. The Bible tells us to " prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good," 1 Thess. v. 21; and the Bible text is*— "To the law and to the testimony, if they speak not according to this word,... | |
 | Homeopathy - 1851 - 398 pages
...received this at an Eclectic College, from professors who were free to investigate, whose maxim was to "prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good." Their graduates, therefore, unlike the graduates of Allopathic Schools in general, were untrammeled.... | |
 | Benjamin William Mathias - 1851 - 174 pages
...you, as you value your immortal souls ; and I call upon you by all these, to "search the Scriptures," to " prove all things," and to " hold fast that which is good." And may the Holy Spirit of God lead you to commit yourselves entirely to his keeping, and to build... | |
 | Rhode Island. Board of Education - Education - 1882 - 304 pages
...and ought to be made in all our educational processes. They seem to think that the Divine injunction, "To prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good," has lost much of its original wisdom, and is ill-adapted to the progressive spirit of the age. A True... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Natural theology - 1892 - 516 pages
...claim such infallibility. If we have once claimed the freedom of the spirit which St. Paul claimed, ' to prove all things and to hold fast that which is good,' we cannot turn back, we cannot say that no one shall prove our own religion, no one shall prove other... | |
 | 1893 - 1120 pages
...ddctrines." And foreseeing the dangers to which the children of the faith will be exposed, he exhorts them to " prove all things," and to "hold fast that which is good." By thus acting we exercise to the fullest extent that liberty of thought which the Church would be... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1893 - 900 pages
...doctrines." And foreseeing the dangers to which the children of the faith will be exposed, he exhorts them to " prove all things," and to " hold fast that which is good." By thus acting we exercise to the fullest extent that liberty of thought which the Church would be... | |
 | Lewis French Stearns - Congregational churches - 1893 - 606 pages
...need most of all to do is to subject the various theories to a careful and appreciative criticism, to prove all things and to hold fast that which is good. The remark we hear so often made, that we need all the theories of the atonement, is indicative of... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - Sermons - 1893 - 906 pages
...from authority, from men of any profession, it is the duty of every individual man to weigh, to jndge, "to prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good." The Word of God is an enlightener; and wherever it has been a free Bible, wherever it has been generally... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Hindu philosophy - 1894 - 220 pages
...sacred. Here is an example which we ought to follow, always trying to separate the wheat from the chaff, to prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good. Now I say again there is plenty of wheat in the Veda, particularly in the Upanishads, but there is... | |
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