Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 19:2

2 He said unto them, Have ye received the holy Ghost since ye believed? And they said unto him, We have not so much as heard whether there be any holy Ghost.

The extraordinary Gifts of the Holy Ghost, as Prophecying, speaking with Tongues, healing of the Sick, &c. as appears by Verse 6. and Iohn 7.39. for it could not be, that they who were Instructed and Baptized by Iohn, should be ignorant of the Essence or Person of the Holy Ghost; for the Baptist had seen him descending upon our Saviour; as is remembred by all the Evangelists which speak of his Baptism, Matth. 3.16. Mark 1.10. Luke 3.22. beside other Scriptures which testified of him; and St. Iohn had spoken of him unto all he Baptized, That our Saviour would Baptize them with the holy Ghost, and with fire, John 1.32, 33.

This answer must be understood, according to the question, of those Gifts now mentioned; and which by the imposition of the hands of the Apostles were given, especially at the Ordination of such as were sent to Preach the Gospel, it being necessary for the Planting of the Church, (those miraculous Gifts assuring those, unto whom they P[illegible: 1 letter]eached, that their Doctrine was from Heaven;) as also [illegible: 1 letter]o assure the Apostles themselves of the success of their Ministry, and the conversation of such they Preached unto, as Chap. 10 44, 47. And this acception of these words is parallel'd, 1 Sam. 3.7. where it is said, That Samuel knew not yet the Lord; the meaning is, That he knew not that God was wont so to speak unto any; otherwise that holy Man, as young as he was, both knew God, and served him.