...Let all error, and unbelief, and sin, be banished from thy church, and may every individual become " a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." We pray thee, O Lord, to strengthen those who desire to serve thee ; and grant...

...visible privileges, neither priest has taught nor catechumen conceived what is the import of " I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." It is, however, a narcotic, diffusing a dimness and a drowsiness over the mind...

...Catechism very fitly reduced to these three heads : that the person who receives it, is " therein made a member of Christ, " a child of God, and an inheritor of the Kingdom " of Heaven." 1. The first, and foundation of the others, is, that he is " made a member...

...witness to my spirit, that I am bought with the blood of the Lamb ; and that, believing in him, " I am a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." I rejoice, because the sense of God's love to me hath, by the same Spirit,...

...catechism very fitly reduced to these three heads : that the person, who receives it, is tlierein made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven. I. The first, and foundation of the others, is, that he is made a member of...

...supposes and teaches every particular believer to say concerning himself, " In my baptism, I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven. And I thank God who hath called me to that state of salvation. And I pray God that I may continue in the...

...faithfully to fulfil these my baptismal engagements, as to be in deed and in truth, and not in name only, a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven. Stablish, strengthen, and settle me, in repentance toward God, faith toward...

...of that which the Church asserts, that an infant is made in and by baptism C not before or after it) a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of God." From the latter service I gathered a few sentences of the most mawkish and puerile...

...believer, as heaven is irreconcileable with hell, and Christ with Belial. If a man can be a believer, ie, a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven, while he wallows in the filth of adultery, and imhrues his hands in innocent...

...school to instruct his pupils in the following part of the church catechism. In baptism " I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." He would not commence his instruction by obliging them to commit to their memory...