...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, Etc."* shows that he considered them as unregenerate, though they had received the sign, or sacrament,...

...comply are said to resist them. Thus Stephen in pointed language addressed the Jews, Acts vii. 51, " Ye stiffnecked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears,...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...

...complained of the people of Jerusalem, that they \vould not. Math. xxiii. 37.— Stephen said to the Jews, Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears,...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...

...prophets to have foreshown the coming of Jesus under the title of the Just One. " Which of the prb" phets have not your fathers persecuted ? And they " have slain them which showed before of the com" ing of the Just One ; of whom ye have been now " the betrayers and murderers V David in spirit...

...popular nor on long. received opinions; for when were ever the majority on the side of truth ? and which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted ? " And they have slain them who showed before of the coming of the Just One." " See, therefore, that there be not iu any of you...

...of this argument. 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...

...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...

...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...

...denied tif Holy One, and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted into you." Chap. iii. 14. " Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted ? And they have ii»in them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One, of *bom ye have been now the betrayers...

...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...