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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Acts 1:4
And, being assembled together with them, commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for the promise of the Father, which, said he, you have heard of me.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

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A Covenant God
... which God meant and so clearly promised that it should have ... God could not fulfil
His promises in us ... If God indeed be thereby Owner and Author of life and strength ...
//christianbookshelf.org/murray/the two covenants/chapter i a covenant god.htm

"Whereby we Cry, Abba, Father. "
... of care as this, to lay hold on God as all ... and his pleasure, to cast your souls on
his promises, that are ... absolute in it, and as Job, "though he should slay me ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon xl whereby we cry.htm

Covenanting Sanctioned by the Divine Example.
... He promises in order that his people may have the security ... that, afforded the giving
of the oath of God as an ... those who were given to the Son should be brought ...
/.../the ordinance of covenanting/chapter ix covenanting sanctioned by.htm

How to Make Use of Christ as the Life, when the Believer is So ...
... by faith wrap himself up in the promises, and lie ... The ordinances then should be gone
about seriously, diligently ... life away, to quarrel now with God, because he ...
/.../brown/christ the way the truth and the life/chapter xxi how to make.htm

Of the Decrees of God.
... to burden your memory with many particulars, we should labour to ... If you ask, who
are heirs of the promises? ... O, if you would observe how unlike ye are to God! ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/lecture xiv of the decrees.htm

Bear up the Hands that Hang Down, by Faith and Prayer...
... wonderful instance of condescending mercy that such poor prayers as his should ever
reach ... The possibilities of prayer run parallel with the promises of God. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bounds/purpose in prayer/chapter ix bear up the.htm

The Spirit of Prayer.
... In the case of those promises of a general nature, where we are ... In this case, God
explains his own promise, and shows how he designed it should be applied. ...
/.../finney/lectures on revivals of religion/lecture vi the spirit of.htm

Hooker -- the Activity of Faith; Or, Abraham's Imitators
... What, mean ye to weep, and to break my heart?" as who should say, It ... He that is resolved
to stoop to the call of God; to prize the promises, and breathe ...
/.../various/the worlds great sermons vol 2/hooker the activity of.htm

Nature of Covenanting.
... An individual may wait on the ordinances of Divine ... been still left to himself; his
promises might have ... means of seeking Divine favour which God should bless. ...
/.../cunningham/the ordinance of covenanting/chapter i nature of covenanting.htm

How to Discern Our Title to the Saints' Rest.
... sometimes accompanies it; as if a child should think himself ... nothing to do but to
wait when God will bestow it. ... of their comfort is in the promises, and thence ...
/.../baxter/the saints everlasting rest/chapter viii how to discern.htm