...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...Fathers persecuted ? And they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of that just one, of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:...

...worth a thought : 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...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...

...xxiv. 14. Eztk. xx. 7, 8, and xxiii. 3. cumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the HolyGhost. As your Fathers did, so do ye. Which of the Prophets...Fathers persecuted ? And they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of that just one, of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers...

...(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...fathers persecuted ? And they have slain " them which shewed before of the coming of the " Just one, of whom ye have been now the betrayers " and murderers...

...and solemnly bequeathed the following verses to his parishioners : ::.;,.. .mi : f • ' :. • I ' " Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in; heart and ears,...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...

...the word shall be destroyed; but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded. e Acts vu. 51. Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears,...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....

...the same. Stephen knew his hearers very well, and spake sharply and dreadfully to them, Acts vii. 51. Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears,...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...

...and just 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...

...was with him, and delivered him out of all his afflictions, 51. As your fathers did, so do ye. 52. Which of the prophets, have not your fathers persecuted ? And they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the just one. XV. THE CHAPTER OF MOSES. 9 DID not Moses himself forewarn...

...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...