| 1877 - 588 páginas
...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 itself... | |
| Mrs. Trimmer (Sarah) - 1812 - 402 páginas
...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 to... | |
| Sarah Trimmer - 1812 - 362 páginas
...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 you... | |
| William White - 1813 - 532 páginas
...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... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1816 - 1082 páginas
...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 with... | |
| 1816 - 658 páginas
...enforced by law. And thus has the delusion been sanctioned, that they were, in consequence of baptism, ' members of ' Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of ' heaven,'—in fact,-Christians ;—entitled, as such, and in coosequence of their baptismal regeneration,... | |
| 1818 - 594 páginas
...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 a part... | |
| 1818 - 904 páginas
...the means of grace, and, if we fulfil our baptismal engagement, shall most certainly be accepted as members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. Snch are the privileges to which the sacred ordinance of baptism admits all •who are partakers of... | |
| 1864 - 464 páginas
...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 to believe... | |
| 1821 - 790 páginas
...to a congregation in which tlie children are not taught to say, that in their baptism they were made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heawn ; that God hath called them to this state of salvation ; and that being by nature born in sin,... | |
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