| Jean Daillé - 1843 - 392 pages
...second commentary upon Hosea. He presently afterwards adds ; " My purpose is to read the ancients ; to prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good ; and not to depart from the faith of the Catholic Church."f According to the rule which he has commended... | |
| Thomas Harttree Cornish - Common law - 1843 - 334 pages
...sound conservative Protestants ; who, it is humbly, but, nevertheless, confidently hoped, will continue to " prove all things," and to "hold fast that which is good." — ED. MEMORANDUM. SECRECY. — What is mine, even to my life, is her's I love; but the secret of... | |
| Thomas Smyth - Church and state - 1843 - 348 pages
...have ears, to hear ; upon all that hear to search the scriptures whether the things heard are so ; to prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good. And it requires every man to be fully persuaded in his own mind, and thus to be able to give a reason... | |
| Jean Daillé - Authority - 1843 - 396 pages
...second commentary upon Hosea. He presently afterwards adds ; " My purpose is to read the ancients ; to prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good ; and not to depart from the faith of the Catholic Church. "f According to the rule which he has commended... | |
| Thomas Madge - Anglo-Catholicism - 1844 - 328 pages
...own minds ; to search the Scriptures, and see whether the things asserted to be true, be so or not ; to prove all things and to hold fast that which is good. Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. The unity, therefore, LECTURE VII. which Christ... | |
| Home missionary society - 1844 - 682 pages
...circulation and reading of the Bible, furnish evidence of a growing desire on the part of the Irish peasantry to " prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good." " I read and explained the word in two houses, the inhabitants of which are Roman Catholics. While... | |
| Hugh Heugh - Belgium - 1844 - 268 pages
...would save themselves, and them that hear them; and, I will add, warnings to the whole christian body, to " prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good." It appears that to scarcely any one subject do the inspired Apostles more abundantly direct the primitive... | |
| John Mason Neale - 1844 - 734 pages
...may fall, to search for himself "the revealed word of God," and see " whether these things be so" — to " prove all things," and to "hold fast that which is good." Our purpose has simply been to exhibit Romanism as it is, as briefly and plainly as we were able, for... | |
| William Simcox Bricknell - Oxford movement - 1845 - 776 pages
...strictest examination of her Doctrines, inviting us in effect, according to a rule really primitive, to " prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good." 35. Such was the conduct of those great men to whom, under God, we owe our pure Faith and worship,... | |
| Baptists - 1867 - 400 pages
...hear you say so while you gravely rub your shins. But then I have always been oms of those who like to " prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good." And there is the old rhyme : " Convince a man against his will, He holds the same opinion still." So... | |
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