...the Sacred Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, as the summary revelation of doctrine, and the descent of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost as the gift of light and understanding. The older Scriptures will be, as far as regards the Church,...

...departure he promised his disciples that they should receive another Comforter, and this was fulfilled by the descent of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost. The murder of our blessed Lord did not prevent the spread of his doctrines ; on the day of Pentecost three...

...like water. PB. xxii. 14. When Peter referred his hearers to the prophecy of Joel, ii, 28, «fec., of the descent of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, — the pouring out of the Spirit, Acts ii. 17, 18, he said it was shed forth, 33 v. Then he alluded to it...

...and subsequent history of St. Paul. That the crucifixion,resurrection and ascension of our SAVIOUR, and the descent of the HOLY GHOST on the day of Pentecost, took place in the Consulship of the two Gemini, was, as he knew full-well, the almost unanimous testimony...

...and subsequent history of St. Paul. That the crucifixion,resurrection and ascension of our SAVIOUR, and the descent of the HOLY GHOST on the day of Pentecost, took place in the Consulship of the two Gemini, was, as he knew full-well, the almost unanimous testimony...

...depicted the four Evangelists (most appropriately for the gospel side), and in the quatrefoil a Majesty, and the descent of the HOLY GHOST on the day of Pentecost— that beginning of missionary zeal. On the epistle side four prophets occupy the four lights, while...

...represented by the glory behind the veil ; but in the dispensation of the Spirit since our LORD'S Baptism, and the descent of the HOLY GHOST on the day of Pentecost, we have a sacramental religion, wherein outward signs are made channels of Divine grace. The old veil...

...spiritual standing, and to the exercise of all those spiritual gifts with which they were endowed by the descent of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost. The second point which we have to notice is, that the blood was first sprinkled in the Most Holy Place,...

...were also two great anniversary festivals, one commemorative of Christ's resurrection, the other of the descent of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost. The days on which the blessed martyrs laid down their lives for the truth, were also held in peculiar veneration....

...more we know of the Apostle James, we ^re chiefly indebted to tradition. After our Lord's Ascension, and the descent of the Holy Ghost on the day of Pentecost, he appears to have laboured chiefly in Jndea and thf neighbouring countries. The tradition, that he...