...thee.". Hear also the words of faithful Stephen, when going to his own martyrdom : Acts vii. 51, 52, "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 ? and...

...Stephen acknowledges the teachings of the Spirit, both in his own time and in that of his ancestors. " * Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears,...resist the Holy Spirit. As your fathers did, so do ye." The Quakers also conceive it to be a doctrine of the Gospel. Jesus himself said f , ** No man can come...

...account of the dispensations of God to his countrymen, and shown how ill they behaved under them, he proceeds to reproach the Sanhedrim, in very severe...people, and therefore this term, like other terms of tfiat nature, came in course of time -to be applied to the disposition as well as the person. To be...

...xxxi. 18. Ephraim said, thou hast chastised me as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke. Acts vii. 5 1. Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost. Deut. x. 16. 2 Chron. xxx. 8. The same thing is anfitied in those expressions of walking after...

...and, under his conduct, into the promised land, which irasthen the possession of the Gentiles. VII. 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost : as your fathers did, so do ye. Ye stubborn and perverse people, men whose hearts are corrupt...

...worth a thought : but it shall be our anxious care in these days not to call down the fearful rebuke, " Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears ; ye do always resist the Holy Ghost ; as your fathers did so do ye ! " With these appliances — the Spirit and the Word — the...

...despiseth the word shall be destroyed; but 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...

...against the same. Stephen knew his hearers 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...

...and just reproof, than in the 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 solemnly bequeathed the 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...