 | William Warburton (Bp. of Gloucester), Richard Hurd - 1811 - 466 pagina’s
...and foretold tlie evil, directs us to the remedy, where it exhorts us to TRY THE SPIUITS. Beloved, believe not every spirit (says St. John), but try the Spirits whether they be of God: because many false Prophets are gone out into the World*. At the time this precept was given,... | |
 | William Warburton - 1811 - 472 pagina’s
...foresaw and foretold the evil, directs us to the remedy, where it exhorts us to TRY THE SPIUITS. Beloved, believe not every spirit (says St. John), but try the Spirits whether they be of God: because many false Prophets are gone out into the World*. At the time this precept was given,... | |
 | Francis Atterbury (bp. of Rochester.) - 1820 - 358 pagina’s
...secrecy, and declines trials of any sort, the more reason we have to suspect and to examine it : Beloved, believe not every spirit, (says St. John), but try the spirits, whether they be of God, John iv. 11.; and most particularly those spirits, which desire to be believed without being... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1823 - 396 pagina’s
...also, that it is sometimes taken for those holy men to whom God communicates his power and influence. " Believe not every spirit," says St. John, " but try the spirits whether they be of God ;" that is, believe not every teacher lightly, who says he is inspired of God, but examine... | |
 | Henry Edward J. Howard (hon.) - 1840 - 340 pagina’s
...light to maintain with understanding the purity of our faith, and the integrity of our practice. " Believe not every spirit," says St. John ; " but try the spirits, whether they are of God."* The course of the history now leads us back to the kingdom of Judah, and Rehoboam its king,... | |
 | Edmund Gibson - 1848 - 424 pagina’s
...religion and the interest of their immortal souls. We are here put upon trying or proving all things. "Believe not every spirit (says St. John),* but try the spirits whether they are of God." Christ bids the Jews " search the Scriptures." Surely then the Scriptures are not to be kept... | |
 | Charles Simeon - 1855 - 636 pagina’s
...immediately take for granted that they are right, or yield ourselves implicitly to their direction : " Believe not every spirit," says St. John ; " but try the spirits, whether they be of God 0." It does not forbid our declaring of the judgment* of God against sin and sinners. When... | |
 | John Selby Watson - 1863 - 750 pagina’s
...ground those claims rest, and call to mind the text in which we are exhorted to try the Spirits. ' Believe not every spirit,' says St. John, ' but try the Spirits, whether they be of God, because many false prophets are gone out into the world.' The test by which we may try them... | |
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Beloved, believe not every spirit (says St. John), but try the Spirits whether they be of God: because many false Prophets are gone out into the World*. 