10-Appendix 4 J.C.Ryle on ‘Prove All Things'

Prove all things: hold fast that which is good (1 Thess.
5:21).
In these words you have... the right, duty and necessity of
private judgment: ‘Prove all things’...1
When I say the right of private judgment, I mean that
every individual Christian has a right to judge for himself,
by the word of God, whether that which is put before him, as
religious truth,2 is God’s truth, or is not.
When I say the duty of private judgment, I mean that God
requires every Christian man to use the right of which I have
just spoken; [that is,] to compare man’s words and man’s
writings with God’s revelation, and to make sure that he is
not deluded and taken in by false teaching.