...but it shall be our anxious care in these days not to call down the fearful rebuke, " Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears ; ye do always...resist the Holy Ghost ; as your fathers did so do ye ! " With these appliances — the Spirit and the Word — the seemingly slow progress and limited range...

...stiifnecked, and uncir. * Lrvit. xvii, 7. Josh. v. 9, and xxiv. 14. Ezek, xx. 7, 8, and xxiii. j. cumcised 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 ? And they have slain them which shewed before...

...Levit. xvii, 7. Josh. v. 9, and xxiv. 14. Ezek. xx. 7, 8, and xxiii. 3.cumcised in heart and cars, 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 before...

...knew his hearers very well, and spake sharply and dreadfully to them, 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. The blessed man was then full of the Holy Ghost, and he was pleading Christ's cause before that wicked...

...be destroyed; but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded. e Acts vu. 51. Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always...resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye. Eph. iv. 30. And grieve not the fcloly Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption....

...bequeathed the following verses to his parishioners : ::.;,.. .mi : f • ' :. • I ' " Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in; heart and ears, ye do always...resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye — Acts vii. 51. " I have laboured in vain : I have spent my strength for. nought, and in vain : yet...

...drawing of Christ by the Serm. VI.] the Lord's Prayer. 81 and his Spirit's dealing with them, as in Acts vii. 51. Ye stiff" necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always rtiiit the Holy Ghost : at' your father t did, so do yei by which they draw on dreadful guilt and destruction,...

...reproof, than in the case of Stephen, when pleading his cause before the Jewish rulers. " Ye stiffnecked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fa. thers did, so do ye. Which of the prophets have not youT^fflp thers persecuted ? and they have...

...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...