...understand this, when he is asked, For what end he was baptized ? He will answer, That he might thereby be made a member of CHRIST, a child of GOD, and an inheritor of the kingdom of Heaven. But why does he believe that Baptism does give him a right to these blessings?...

...indignation, against the " Babylonish abomination" of teaching every baptized person to say, that he is a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven. It is easy, by such a strain, to disturb light and ignorant minds, and supply...

...above all, and through all, and in you all." Eph. iv. 4—6. You say you were made, in your baptism, a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven ; in what state were you then born? All mankind are born in sin, and subject...

...promises that were entered into on your behalf. Remember that the privileges were, admission to be a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of Heaven ; that is, you were made subjects' of Christ's preparatory kingdom upon earthy...

...Almighty God. Become in fact and personally, — in mind and disposition, character, and conduct— a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven ! For, this latter is the sense — the all-important sense — in which Regeneration...

...good-will towards us, by the which He doth work invisibly in us У.' Thus in baptism the Christian child is made 'a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven z.' And ' the Body and Blood of Christ are verily and indeed taken and received...

...which is without Christ, having no hope, and without God in the world, and becomes by baptism not only a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of Heaven, but also an heir to all the rich and peculiar possessions of our Church, her...

...to be a child of God, and an heir of heaven, nay as sealed and signed in the visible covenant to be a "member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." You are, therefore, to train and to teach, not professed heathens, but professed...

...to be a child of God, and an heir of heaven, nay as seated and signed in the visible covenant to be a "member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." You are, therefore, to train and to teach, not professed heathens, but professed...

...bondman to the church ; he was Christ's free man in his Father's house. Baptism meant for him that he was "a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven." And he gloried in this freedom. Nothing is a more striking feature in the character...