...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...

...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....

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...flesh, is made the outward sign of spiritual regeneration, whereby we are put into a state of grace, made " members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of Heaven." This is the covenanted mercy and promise on God's part. On our own part, thus admitted into a second...

...which belong to the new Jerusalem ; but we are earnestly invited, we are solemnly commanded to become members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven ; in other words, to be no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and...