...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...

...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...

...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?...

...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...

...believer, as heaven is irreconcileable with hell, and Christ with Belial. If a man can be a beliver, 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 imbrues his hands in innocent...

...professes to believe Election, but does away with it by teaching every child to say, that, he is " a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven," She holds atonement by the blood of Christ, but secretly destroys it by enjoining...

...shewn to every one of us at our baptism ; wherein, as the Catechism teaches us, each of us was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven. What a dignity and glory it is to be thus admitted into God's family, to be...

...people, carefully to bear in mind, that in order to render a vile condemned sinner and child of wrath, ' a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of haaven,' something more is necessary than the mere external washing by water in baptism....

...name, be reminded of his connexion with the kingdom of heaven ; that by this very name he was made " a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of Heaven" — ie a member of the Church of Christ, one of God's especial children by adoption...