...dangerous as those professed believers who deprecate and deride all study of evidence — all endeavour to ' prove all things, and hold fast that which is good,' and to be always ' ready to give a reason of the hope that is in us." 1 See Elements of Logic, Appendix...

...no means follows that the mind has no agency in deciding what it will believe. The Bible requires us to prove all things and hold fast that which is good, and to try the spirits in order to see whether they be of God or of men. Here is a great duty expressly...

...why you call it boy's play," he said, " if I wish to come at the truth. Are we not told in the Bible to ' prove all things, and hold fast that which is good ;' and how can we be said to have proved anything if we have never searched into any creed but the one we...

...when we read the different portions of rt we ure to ' try the spirits whether they are of God,' and to •" prove all things, and hold fast that which is good,' and to ' compare spiritual things with spiritual,'—that it is :i part •of our glorioos, yet solemn...

...dangerous as those professed believers who deprecate and deride all study of evidence, — all endeavour to 'prove all things, and hold fast that which is good,' and to be always ' ready t» give a reason of the hope that is in us.'i Sec Elements of Ts,gie, Appendix...

...to resist all evil, injustice, and wrong, with a steady firmness, free from all uncharitableness ; to prove all things, and hold fast that which is good and true. It is, then, an article of our faith, that only by repentance and reformation, by a new birth...

...dangerous as those professed believers who deprecate and deride all study of evidence — all endeavour to ' prove all things, and hold fast that which is good,' and to be always 'ready to give a reason of the hope that is in us." 1 See Element! of Logic, Appendix...

...true significance." " Does not the Bible tell us to let these things alone ? " " The Bible tells us to ' prove all things, and hold fast that which is good.' " " And I have proved it, and found it an upas-tree of bitterness, sir." • " And that is just where I wish...

...one of us must give account of himself to God,' has rendered us personally responsible, has taught us to ' prove all things, and hold fast that which is good,' and requires us to exert the inalienable right of private judgment in matters of religion. Under these...

...dangerous as those professed believers who deprecate and deride all study of evidence—all endeavour to ' prove all things, and hold fast that which is good,' and to be always 'ready to give a reason of tho hope that is in us." See Elements of Logie, Appendix iii....