...kindly excuse. From my earliest childhood, I was taught to say, that, " in my baptism, — I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven."* My instructors would readily admit, and in effect taught, the following sentiments,...

...shewn to every one of us at our baptism ; wherein, as the Catechism teaches us, each of us was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven. What a dignity and glory it is to be thus admitted into God's family, to be...

...the command of CHRIST; that, for my part, I may do what in me lies, to have my child made indeed " a member of CHRIST, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven;" and may learn from the baptismal services, as well as from the church catechism,...

...live in the practice of all my days. And I am perfectly satisfied, that, if I do th'is, I am indeed a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven ; my baptism, in that case, being God's seal of indenture, as it were, and obligation,...

...people, carefully to bear in mind, that in order to render a vile condemned sinner and child of wrath, ' a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of haaven,' something more is necessary than the mere external washing by water in baptism....

...reduced to order, but the work of reduction is begun. It also changes the individual's status, making him a " member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven." Those who are thus brought into this state of salvation and continue in the...

...self-development," is no less a " dim mythologic postulate " than the solemn titles of the newly baptized, " a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." Both are a visible paradox, a strong protest against facts; a presumption in...

...to be a child of God, and an heir of heaven, nay as sealed and signed in the visible covenant to be a "member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." You are, therefore, to train and to teach, not professed heathens, but professed...

...towards us, by the which He doth work invisibly in us У.' Thus in baptism the Christian child is made 'a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven z.' And ' the Body and Blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received...

...which is without Christ, having no hope, and without God in the world, and becomes by baptism not only a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of Heaven, but also an heir to all the rich and peculiar possessions of our Church, her...