 | Augustus Clissold - New Jerusalem Church - 1839 - 260 pages
...were called upon ' ' to believe not every spirit, but to try the spirits whether they be of God," " to prove all things, and to, hold fast that which is good," the present assuredly is one. The disposition to inquiry which has been awakened, the spread of education,... | |
 | George Eduard Biber - Church - 1840 - 540 pages
...no more than an untoward singularity. The rightly thinking part of the community, who have learned to " prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good," (1 Thess . v. 21,) — in all communities but a small minority, — do not indeed, on such account, depreciate the truth... | |
 | Hugh McNeile - Second Advent - 1840 - 132 pages
...resist error, in the face of every solicitation, and blandishment, and bribe of a compromising world : to prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good. * I. First, then; an inquiry into the true interpretation of the unfulfilled prophecies of Scripture,... | |
 | John H. Hall - Baptism - 1840 - 138 pages
...being correct,) St. Paul commands us not to despise prophesyings, (or the teachings of others,) but to prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good, (and the way to prove all things is for. us to go " to the law and the testimony,") and if they speak... | |
 | Joshua William Brooks - Religion - 1840 - 876 pages
...resist error, in the face of every solicitation, and blandishment, and bribe of a compromising world: to prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good.* I. First, then; an inquiry into the true interpretation of the unfulfilled prophecies of Scripture,... | |
 | Joseph Butterworth Owen - 1840 - 144 pages
...ordinance to the proof of our experience, — may we be enabled, by the edification of our own souls, "to prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good." SERMON IV. DEFENCE OF THE ENGLISH RUBRIC. " IN whom also after that ye believed, ye were scaled with... | |
 | 1851 - 592 pages
...interpretations of a self constituted body calling itself ' Holy Mother church ?' No, we are directed to prove all things and to hold fast that which is good. The apostle Paul wrote as unto wise men and directed them to judge what he said. The example of the... | |
 | George Hill - Apologetics - 1842 - 812 pages
...understanding. — They are required here, as upon every other subject, to separate truth from falsehood, to " prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good."* Extensive information and enlightened criticism are called in to be the handmaids of religion ; and... | |
 | Benjamin Fiske Barrett - 1842 - 470 pages
...* Organon of Homoeopathic Medicine, by Samuel Hahnemann, p. 44. spirits, whether they be of God,' ' to prove all things and to hold fast that which is good,' the present assuredly is one. The disposition to inquiry that has been awakened, the spread of education,... | |
 | 1843 - 746 pages
...search them for himself, to submit his conscience to no earthly dominion whatever, but individually to ' prove all things' and to ' hold fast that which is good.' The Anglican church, on the contrary, teaches, that a certain existing body of men ' has power to decree... | |
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