...reading, hearing, loving., and acknowledging before men, Jesus Christ and his Gospel, make me free, or " a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven." This brings me to the application, or use of this most important subject. All...

...Catechism refers us, without any qualification, to a change of state as positively consequent upon Baptism. " Wherein I was made " a member of Christ, a child of God," &c. HO! in itself be gradual, and as the cause of that change cannot be in man himself, so no work...

...to incorporate it into His Holy Church; nor afterward? to teach that child, that in his Baptism he " was made a " member of Christ, a child of God, and an in" heritor of the kingdom of heaven." You are not liable to the necessity of administering the Lord's...

...past, are explained with less ambiguity in another passage of the Catechism, in which the child says, " in my baptism wherein I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." The interpretation which the Archdeacon hath given of this Collect will shew,...

...the beginning of the church of England catechism as an example. " Q. Who gave you that name?" — "A. My godfathers and godmothers in my baptism, wherein I was made a member of Christ," &c. How should a child at seven years comprehend die meaning of a membership with an unseen metaphysical...

...Christ, the child of God, and " an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven *." To * Th« expression of being made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven, at our baptism, leads to much theological disquisition ; and as this work is...

...for serious examination. ' To this question, " Who gave you that name," the child is instructed to answer, " My godfathers and godmothers in my baptism,...member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." Who can give us an assurance of all these things? and who that believes them,...

...the elect of God, our Church Catechism likewise distinctly asserts. ft. " Who gave you that name ? A. My Godfathers and " Godmothers in my Baptism, wherein I was made a " member of Christ, the child of God, and an inheritor " of the kingdom of Heaven I learn to believe in " God the Holy...

...John Zealous —Who gave you this name ? Jlns. my God-fathers and God-mothers in my baptism, wherein 1 was made a. member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of Heaven. What did your God-fathers and God-mothers then for you ? Jlns. They did promise...

...She looked to Miss Colville; and at length said, "You allude to the Catechism, papa ; and that part, 'a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.'" "I do," said Mr. Austen; "and can we really pretend to a character of integrity...