...can never persuade a staunch high-churchman that those whom the prayer-book pronounces to be made in baptism members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven, are not so. You cannot persuade one who dearly loves his church, but who loves the Bible better,...

...requisite act of profanation * is performed forthwith, and the said children are baptized, or "made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven," at a dump f or quarter-dollar a head, exclusive of the fee for the churching of the woman...

...God, the election of grace, and the inheritance of the saints. True believers when baptized, become members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven ; but unbelievers, though baptized, though formally washed with water in the name of the Father....

...18. 3 Rom. x. 12. us in the Gospel of his blessed Son, are we placed in a state of salvation, become members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. " And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding that we may know...

...persuade a staunch high-churchman that those whom the prayer-book pronounces to be made in haptism members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven, are not so. Yon cannot persuade one who dearly loves his church, but who loves the Bible better,...

...grace sufficient for salvation, the admission into a state of covenant with God, by which we become " members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven." Let us not, however, imagine, that because, by the sacrament of baptism, we are placed in...

...with the Holy Spirit;" neither could we teach our children to say, that in Baptism they were " made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven." The office of godfather and godmother, also, whatever may be said in explanation of its origin,...

...faith," and " to obey his commandments ;" which if we will not perform, how can we expect to be made " members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven?" A free-born Isaac shall cast out both the bondwoman and her son ; and a dutiful and obedient...

...Church of England sets before us this hope, from the first instruction in our catechism, that " we are members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven ; " to the last prayer pronounced over our departed bodies,' " that it may please thee shortly...

...or which is the, same, did they live up to their dignity, and every where consider themselves as " members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven," what manner of persons, yea what angels would they be, in all holy conversation! Sometimes...