...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...

...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...

...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...

...has given the principal offence. " Ye stiff-necked and uncircurncised in heart," said St. Stephen, " ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye." And think ye not that the same things, with equal truth, may be said in our times, of many a proud...

...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,...

...has given the principal offence. " Ye stiff-necked and uncircutncised in heart," said St. Stephen, " ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye." And think ye not that the same things, with equal truth, may be said in our times, of many a proud...

...by bis secret strivings. The meaning is explained 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 is the charge preferred against the unbelievers of a nation at two different periods, and expresses...

...warn them, how were they treated ? Hear Saint Stephen's account, " Ye stiffnecked 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 ? " It is not then by a text here and there...

...dispensation. Nay, he must actually have wrought for their conversion, or St. Stephen could not have said, " Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your Fathers did, so do ye." I would also refer CP to the eleven til chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, that he may satisfy...