being with them when they were assembled, he order'd they should not depart from Jerusalem, but wait for what the father had promis'd, which, said he, I mention'd.

therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the father the promise of the holy spirit, he has diffused that spirit, the effects of which ye now see and hear.

for the promise is to you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

it is of his posterity that God, pursuant to his promise, has rais'd up Jesus to be the saviour of Israel.

to you therefore we declare, that the promise which God had made to the fathers, he has now perform'd to us, who are their children, by his having raised up Jesus again.

and now I stand arraign'd for expecting the accomplishment of the divine promise made to our fathers,