PRUDENCE
Torrey's New Topical Textbook
Exhibited in the manifestation of God's grace
Exemplified by Christ
Intimately connected with wisdom
The wise celebrated for
Saints act with
Saints should especially exercise, in their intercourse with unbelievers
Virtuous wives act with
The young should cultivate
THEY WHO HAVE
Get knowledge
Deal with knowledge
Look well to their goings
Understand the ways of God
Understand their own ways
Crowned with knowledge
Not ostentatious of knowledge
Foresee and avoid evil
Are preserved by it
Suppress angry feelings
Regard reproof
Keep silence in the evil time
OF THE WICKED
Fails in times of perplexity
Keeps them from the knowledge of the gospel
Denounced by God
Defeated by God
Necessity for-Illustrated
Exemplified
Jacob
Joseph
Jethro
Gideon
David
Abigail
Aged counsellors of Rehoboam
Solomon
Nehemiah
The Poor Wise Man
The Scribe
Gamaliel
Sergius Paulus
Paul
General scriptures concerning
Jacob, in his conduct toward Esau
Jacob, toward his sons, after Dinah’ s defilement
Joseph, in the affairs of Egypt
Jethro’ s advice to Moses
The Israelites, in the threatened war with the two and one-half tribes
Saul, in not killing the Jabesh-gileadites
David, in his conduct toward Saul
David, in overthrowing Ahithophel’ s shrewd advice
Abigail, in averting David’ s anger
Achish, in dismissing David
Elijah, in his escape from Jezebel
Rehoboam’ s advisers
Jehoram, in suspecting a Syrian stratagem
Nehemiah, in conduct of affairs at Jerusalem
Daniel
Certain elders of Israel
In charging those who were healed not to “advertise” his miracles
Going to the feast secretly
In walking “no longer openly,”
In avoiding his enemies
Joseph, in his conduct toward Mary
Peter, in escaping from Herod Agrippa I
In circumcising Timothy
In performing temple rites
In turning the Jewish sects against each other
Avoiding suspicion in administering the gifts of the congregations
His lack of, in his persistence in going to Jerusalem despite the warnings of the Spirit and his friends
Paul and Barnabas, in escaping persecution
Paul and Silas, in escaping from Berea
The town clerk of Ephesus, in averting a riot