...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,...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...* 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,...

...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...