...then taught, they resist God's grace ; — alledging, 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.' — This, and much more, he then declared ; and, in fine, concluded _ , • 22G in these words : "...

...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. '...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...