Judging Prophecy Hinge 1: Was testing prophecy a real practice in the early church?

1 Corinthians 12:10 lists 'the ability to distinguish between spirits' as a spiritual gift paired with prophecy -- just as tongues is paired with interpretation of tongues. 1 John 4:1 says 'do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.' Testing prophecy was standard practice in the early church.