| 1832 - 678 páginas
...for Holy Communion, baptism have them initiated into the Christian covenant, whereby they become " members of CHRIST, children of GOD, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven !"* How salutary the influence of this devotion of their children, upon the parents themselves ; awakening... | |
| John Fletcher - 1833 - 602 páginas
...or, which is the dame, 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 their... | |
| 1831 - 396 páginas
...Bolton Streets, I would have said — •" Most of these, my lord, were pronounced at their baptism, ' members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven;' and about two years ago, they renewed the promises of their God-parents, ' fo renounce the devil and... | |
| Francis Bragge - 1833 - 334 páginas
...were born in a Christian country, and early dedicated to God in baptism ; " wherein we " were made members of Christ, children of God, " and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven ;" that we had good and indulgent parents, who gave us a pious and ingenuous education, and brought... | |
| Charles Lawson (M.A.) - 1834 - 422 páginas
...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 a capacity... | |
| Thomas H. KINGDON - 1834 - 180 páginas
...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. Son,... | |
| 1842 - 608 páginas
...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, that... | |
| 1834 - 566 páginas
...requisite act »f 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* or quarter-dollar a head, exelusive of the fee for the churching of the woman ; Mr. Joseph... | |
| John Brewster - 1834 - 382 páginas
...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 him... | |
| 1834 - 846 páginas
...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, is... | |
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