...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...

...; 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...? And they have slain them which showed before of th« corning of the just ONE ; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers.'' (Aetsvn. 51,...

...proves that the 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,...of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted-" Acts vii. 51, 52. Some in our days call it an Old Testament spirit, hinting thereby that the spirit...

...means ineffectual. 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,...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...

...against such conviction and repentance. Has not God justly brought this charge against men in every age ? Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears,...resist the Holy Ghost ; as your fathers did, so do ye. Acts vii. 51. Let believers testify of their conduct when they first felt inward reproof for sin. How...

...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...

...interpretation of this part of the prophecy had been designed : " they have slain " them, which shewed before of the coming of the " Just One, of whom ye have been now the be" trayers and murderers f." 11. The anointing of the Most Holy, mentioned in the 24M verse, must...

...and with all thy soul, thatthou mayest live."* " If then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled."t " Ye stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost. "J " He is not a Jew, which is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the...

...said to have rebelled, and vexed his Holy Spirit, Isaiah Ixiii. 10. Some are said to resist him; " Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost; as your fathers did, so do ye." Others are said to quench the Spirit; which is done by hardening the heart against all the reproofs,...