...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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, therefore, say unto the Jews as he did, in Acts vii. 51. " Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost...have thus been disposed to hate the light, shut their eyes, stop their ears, and refuse to hear, and been utterly opposed to a return to God ; so this is...

...reign ! How forcibly is the unbeliever addressed, Acts vii. 51. J5? stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost ; as your fathers did, so do ye, " None but a power divinely strong " Can turn the current of the soul." 5. The gospel has an influence...

...and that of St. Stephen were the same spirit; as it is written, " Ye stiff-necked, and uncircumcised 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-" Acts vii. 51, 52. Some in our days call it...