 | 1830 - 802 ページ
...changed, namely, I always think it right to read or hear every man's opinion, and then judge for myself; to " prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good." The difference of opinion, in many of your correspondents, respecting the management of forest timber... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1831 - 126 ページ
...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 ad vantage of an authorized standard of divine truth, we invite all to search... | |
 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1831 - 658 ページ
...the Gospel. The object of the letter was not to foster blind bigotry, but to lead his correspondent to " prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good." Those of his young friends who went abroad, his heart followed with the most affectionate solicitude... | |
 | William Thorn - 1831 - 400 ページ
...they are pompous or common, is beneath the character and claims of those who are commanded and profess to ' Prove all ' things, and to hold fast that which is good.' n. The usual apathy of religious professors in the present day respecting the great doctrines and duties... | |
 | Richard Parkinson - 1832 - 380 ページ
...Grace 1 ?" Among other evidences, then, of the truth of our holy religion, let us, whose duty it is to prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good, by no means neglect that which is drawn from the language of prophecy. It is evidence which cannot... | |
 | John Mitchell Mason - 1832 - 462 ページ
...scriptures for the warrant both of our religious profession and our religious observances. We are charged to PROVE all things, and to HOLD FAST that which is good. The charge embraces not merely such things as we have not hitherto adopted, but whatever we already... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1833 - 282 ページ
...not truth. An Apostle commands us to "standfast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free," " to prove all things," and to " hold fast that which is good." In fact the very spirit of the Gospel is that of freedom, it is called a " law of liberty, " and its... | |
 | 596 ページ
...speaks, who is double-minded and unstable in all his ways, and driven about and tossed. He endeavours to " prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good." This feeling will be combined with great veneration for the truth. His thoughts about God will be deep... | |
 | Joseph Holmes (headmaster of the Free grammar sch, Leeds.) - 1834 - 182 ページ
...times ; we wish to discover the good way, that we may walk therein. We desire to follow the Apostle's injunction; to "prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good." In advocating the system, we defend not the corruptions or abuses of any Establishment. But our adversaries,... | |
 | Thomas Shaw B. Reade - 1834 - 536 ページ
...is the net spread in the sight of any bird." Enable me to examine everything by the light of truth: to prove all things, and to hold fast that which is good. He seeks my destruction,—3. by stirring up the wicked to persecute my soul; and by spreading stumbling-blocks... | |
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