...the Spirit working among them. Hence Stephen says, " Ye stiffhecked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost ; as your fathers did, so do ye." The gospel is called " a ministration of the Spirit." They who heard the gospel are said to " have...

...(who from your disobedience are not able to " hear and understand what the law has declared to " you) ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your " fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have " not your fathers persecuted ? And they have slain " them which shewed...

...SHRIT IN THY PROPHETS; and the pointed address of Stephen to those -who rejected the gospel of Christ, Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: As your fathers did, so de ye, Acts vii. 51. This for aught I can conceive, may with propriety be called the common operation...

...Stephen was preaching Christ, to Christ's murderers, he aggravates their sin by this, Ye stiffs-fleeked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghosti as your fathers did, so do ye. Especially, this sin is greatest when the Holy Ghost is convicting...

...spirit of Elijah and that of St. Stephen were the same spirit; as it is written, " Ye stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always...resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted-" Acts vii. 51, 52. Some in our days call it...

...Well might St. Stephen, therefore, say unto the Jews as he did, in Acts vii. 51. " Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always...resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye ;" nor had they any reason to be angry with him therefor. And as all who have enjoyed the external...

...submit to its holy reign ! How forcibly is the unbeliever addressed, Acts vii. 51. J5? stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always...resist the Holy Ghost ; as your fathers did, so do ye, " None but a power divinely strong " Can turn the current of the soul." 5. The gospel has an influence...

...Stephen, therefore, say unto the Jews as he did, in Acts vii. 51. "Ye stiff-necked and un circumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye ;" nor had they any reason to be angry with him therefor. And as all who have enjoyed the external...

...very many instances. Stephen's address to the Jewish counsel, when he was full of the Holy Ghost: " Ye stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart " and ears, ye do always resist, the Holy Ghost, " &e;"1 shews that he considered them as unregenerate, though they had received the sign, or sacra•*...

...; and see what their conduct has always been towards God, and towards one another. Towards God—" Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost ; as your fathers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted ? And they have slain them which showed before...