...had received our names from " our godfathers and our godmothers in our baptism, wherein we were made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of heaven." The master of this school had a thin vein of humour in his composition, which sometimes showed...

...not have the privileges of Baptism continued to them if they do not; they will be cutoff from being members of Christ, Children of God, and Inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven. Questions. Do not you say in the first part of the Catechism, that you think verily, and indeed...

...covenant. Questions. — Is it not a great happiness to be baptized in infancy I [Ans. Yes.] Can we become members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven, loo early in life? [Ans. No.] Can those who are born in sin, and children of wrath, be reconciled...

...initiatory part of the Catechism, they are said to be in " a state of salvation," and to be made " members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven;" with other things to the same effect. In the present stage of the instrument, baptism is described...

...thousands of ignorant, wretched beings, during the two hundred and fifty years that the Catechism his been enforced by law. And thus has the delusion been...children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of ' heaven,'— in fact, Christians ; — entitled, as such, and in consequence of their baptismal regeneration,...

...sinful man can keep them, we are entitled by promise to all the privileges of the gospel. We "become members of Christ, children " of God, and inheritors of the kingdom " of heaven." We are redeemed through the merits of Christ ; pardoned through the mercies of God ; and rewarded...

...earth to heaven; if without it we can have no hope either here or hereafter, and with it are rendered " members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven ;" — it surely cannot be doubtful whether to promote its extension throughout the world be...

...the purest ages of the Church." They were to be taught, that their infants were, by baptism, "made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven." And when the baptized children arrived at " years of discretion," they were to be encouraged...

...and receive the name that is to be borne in token of our being made Christians — of our becoming members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven ; even as the Jews received a name at the time of circumcision — of admission into the Mosaic...

...commandments, and 'walk in the same all the days of your life;" and that otherwise you could not be " members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven:" would not this put you to a stand ? Would you not think it necessary to have some proper knowledge,...