| 1864 - 464 páginas
...centuries — 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... | |
| 1822 - 570 páginas
...we recollected that ¡ill the consistent and regut/tr clergy teach children, that in baptism lliey were made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. The work too, of Air. Simpson, in which his reasons for the measure he intended are given, is represented... | |
| Edward Berens - 1822 - 226 páginas
...instructs us, that in Baptism we change a state of wrath for a state of grace ; that in Baptism " we are " made members of Christ, children of " God, and inheritors of the kingdom of " heaven." Members of the Church of Christ have an interest in the promises made to that Church, in the promise... | |
| Edward John Burrow - 1822 - 594 páginas
...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 covenant.... | |
| Thomas Adam - 1822 - 562 páginas
...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,... | |
| Joshua Dixon (of Leeds.) - 1822 - 250 páginas
...the promises he made at haptism to man. What does the Catechism say we are made in haptism ? Memhers of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. What is it to he a member of Christ ? It is to he united to him, as the hranch is to the vine, and... | |
| 1823 - 408 páginas
...devotion to his will ; and God on his part, seals to our comfort, his covenant of mercy : we are " made members of Christ children of God and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven." Thus ''baptism nmv save s us — by the resurrection of Jesus Christ ;" and through our belief" that... | |
| 1823 - 880 páginas
...be derived from it, under the three beads afforded us by our Church Catechism — " Whereby we are made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven." The first of these benefits he thus describes : [JUNE, Christian men are discerned from other« that... | |
| Henry Crossman - 1823 - 156 páginas
...and they have been constantly baptized in all ages of the Christian Church. A. On God's part we are made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven : on our part, we promise to renounce the Devil, the world, and the flesh, so as neither to follow... | |
| 1823 - 594 páginas
...duties to which we were pledged; but that, now we do understand these things, we earnestly wish to be " members of Christ," children of God," and " inheritors of the kingdom of heaven." • Now, if we think, as we ought to do, of this solemn rite, we shall see that it is not a light or... | |
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