...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...

...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...

...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...Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted ? " It is not then by a text here and there only that we prove Original Sin. The proof of it is every...

..." from your disobedience are not able to " hear and understand what the law has de" clared to you,) ye do always resist the Holy " Ghost : as your fathers...ye. Which " of the prophets have not your fathers per" secuted ? And they have slain them which " shewed before of the coming of the Just " One, of whom...

...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...

...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...

...us hear the declaration of Stephen. See Acts vii. 51 — 54. " Ye stiff-necked, and uncircumcise<] in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost...prophets have not your fathers persecuted, and they have slam theta which shewed before oi" the coming of the just one ; of whom ye have been now the betrayers...

...narrative, and, charging home upon the hearts of his hearers, cried, " Ye stiffhecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye." And these words, followed as they were by words of thunder accusing them of the betrayal and murder...

...this kind of divine influence. This made the apostle say to them, " Ye stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye." As this is the general character of men, we have that solemn admonition, " Quench not the Spirit."...

...character. Stephen, the martyr, rebuked the Jews of his day, for rejecting the counsel of God. — " Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost ; as your fathers did, so do ye." The resistance here mentioned, was to all the measures contained in the dispensation of Moses, and...