![](https://books.google.com.tr/books/content?id=b_QDAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | 1842
...Apostles, however, taught us better than this. St. Paul tells the Thessalonians to ' prove, or try, all things ; and to hold fast that which is good,' (1 Thess. v. 21.) And in the Acts of the Apostles (chap. xvii. ver. 11,) the Bereans are praised for that they ' searched... | |
![](https://books.google.com.tr/books/content?id=CkoEAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | 1806 - 678 sayfa
...word of God. He accordingly, in reply, laid down these two principles : First, " That it is necessary to prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good." 1 Thes. v. 21. Gal. i. 8, 9, Secondly, " That there is no infallible authority on earth, but that of... | |
![](https://books.google.com.tr/books/content?id=uL8PAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1808 - 326 sayfa
...have contrary dispositions, to follow a religion from obstinacy, or prejudice, is equally to renounce the dignity of a man. a Christian, and a Protestant...iv. 22 ; it requires us to prove all things, and to lioldfast that which is good. 1 Thess. v. 21. The dignity of a Protestant : for it is the foundation... | |
![](https://books.google.com.tr/books/content?id=lCE3AAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | David Simpson - 1809 - 410 sayfa
...will be useful to them. Whatever is pernicious, they will reject, remembering that we are enjoined to prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good. Some shameful instances of non-residence, patronage, and pluralities of livings, aniong the bishops... | |
![](https://books.google.com.tr/books/content?id=htsOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | Thomas Scott - 1811 - 824 sayfa
...uninspired writings, to distinguish as well as I can, between what is, and what is not, scriptural ; to " prove all things, and to hold fast -*' that which is good :" and I am apt to think, that I discern some little inconsistencies in the sentiments even of those,... | |
![](https://books.google.com.tr/books/content?id=HD0PAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | Charles Simeon - 1813 - 282 sayfa
...will instantly appear. We do not wish to produce critical hearers; but it is the duty of every man to " prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good ;"* and as we have the advantage of an authorized standard of divine truth; we * l Thess. v. 21. invite... | |
![](https://books.google.com.tr/books/content?id=DEoEAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | New Church gen. confer - 1857 - 1220 sayfa
...their sweets, and thus form honey, so the rational mind is intended, by the exercise of its judgment, " to prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good." It is thus that good is, as it were, extracted for the uses of the spiritual life, as the bee extracts... | |
![](https://books.google.com.tr/books/content?id=sjoEAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | 1822 - 440 sayfa
...liheral men who wrote the sacred volume, were not ecclesiastical tyrants ; they wished their readers " to prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good ;" and they have commended it as a nohle disposition, not to helieve any thing withoot examination,... | |
![](https://books.google.com.tr/books/content?id=BJwPAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | Thom Scott - 1824 - 680 sayfa
...rule and motives of duty ; I cannot doubt that he taught you the doctrine of scripture. It behoves us " to prove all things, " and to hold fast that which is good." But, it is also highly desirable that we should " not be as " children, tossed to and and fro, and... | |
![](https://books.google.com.tr/books/content?id=KA8EAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl) | 1038 sayfa
...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 thus... | |
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