...are some of you that believe not.' Therefore that Spirit did not work irresistibly. Acts vii. 41. ' Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye.' Chap. xiii. 46. ' Ye put it from you, andjudge yourselves unworthy of eternal life.' Heb. iii. 8. '...

...people of Jerusalem, that they \vould not. Math. xxiii. 37.— Stephen said to the Jews, Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always...resist the Holy Ghost, as your fathers did, so do ye. Acts vii. 51. - And we are called upon not to harden our hearts — Heb. iii. and not t» grieve the...

...to resist them. Thus Stephen in pointed language addressed the Jews, Acts vii. 51, " Ye stiffnecked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always...resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye." The Holy Spirit is always in the church, convincing of sin and the certain danger to which it exposes...

...Stephen to the Jewish council, every member of which had been regularly circumcised in the flesh ; ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye.1 Circumcision, says St. Paul, verily profiteth, if thou keep the Law : 'but, if thou be a bveaker...

...We proceed to notice the only remaining passage on this subject. Acto vii. 31 : * "Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do ye." " The Holy Spirit is here represented," says MrWardlaw, " as...

...disposition, temper, and hahits thus produced. Thus, when Stephen says to the Jews, (Acts vii. 51.) " Ye do always resist the holy ghost, as your fathers did, so do ye;"—he must mean, by the holy ghost, all those means, which God employed in present and preceding...

...determine us ; otherwise why are we required not to grieve God's Spirit? Why is it said, Ye do Actsrit5l. always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do ye. How often would I have gathered, you under my wings, but Mat. xxiii. ye would not ? What more could...

...has given the principal offence. " Ye stiff-necked and uncircutncised in heart," said St. Stephen, " ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye." And think ye not that the same things, with equal truth, may be said in our times, of many a proud...

...has given the principal offence. " Ye stiff-necked and uncircurncised in heart," said St. Stephen, " ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye." And think ye not that the same things, with equal truth, may be said in our times, of many a proud...

...the first martyr Stephen, (Acts vii. 51.) " Ye stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart and in ear, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost ; as your fathers did, so do ye." , But the sin becomes presumptuous in the highest degree, when, besides the remonstrances of conscience,...