 | 1830 - 802 страници
...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... | |
 | James Hay, Henry Belfrage - 1831 - 658 страници
...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... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1831 - 126 страници
...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... | |
 | William Thorn - 1831 - 400 страници
...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... | |
 | John Mitchell Mason - 1832 - 462 страници
...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... | |
 | Richard Parkinson - 1832 - 380 страници
...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... | |
 | 596 страници
...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... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1833 - 282 страници
...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... | |
 | 1842 - 608 страници
...solution of predictions yet to be accomplished, and thus learn to " separate the precious from the vile," to " prove all things and to hold fast that which is good." We are on the verge of awful events : to the world we may address the words of the poet — " incedis... | |
 | 1834 - 810 страници
...most safe directions and the most powerful incitements to further improvement. While it teaches us how to prove all things and to hold fast that which is good, it bids us go on to perfection. It has already been intimated, that the pages of ecclesiastical history... | |
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