...Christian ? A. When I was baptised or christened. Q. What is it to be a Christian ? A. It is to be made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven. Q. What is it to be a member of Christ? A. To be a member of Christ's Church....

...to bring forth the fruits of the Spirit ! M.iy , every every member of thrs Congregation be, indeed, a member of CHRIST, a child of GOD, and an inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven ! May thoufands yet unborn, be enabled to praife thee for their Spiritual Birth...

...defined than by the general assertion that it is a death unto sin and a new birth unto righteousness. and that every person rightly baptized is made thereby...declares in very general and positive language of all who, having been duly baptized, are afterwards brought to be confirmed, that Almighty God has vouchsafed...

...state of grace. In the service of the church of England we are told that in baptism the infant is made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of tite kingdom of har:cn. It is probable the absurd notion of original sin, first gave rise to the unscriptural...

...instances to which we allude is in the very first article ; " You say that in your baptism you were made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven. Were you not so before? No; you Were not: for by nature you were born in sin,...

...catechism. In the answer to the second question the child is taught to say, " In my baptism I was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." The dangerous error is thus instilled into the whole of the rising generation...

...doctrine of thost; national establishments which pronounce every subject of their spiritual jurisdiction, a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven. Thus it is we find personal election, particular redemption, and justification...

...apprehend to be so for an Elect of God by the act of baptism, that by virtue of this sacrament he becomes a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven : and ever continues to be so, if to the best of his power he complies with the...

...sported in these ridiculous, though highly applauded lines ? Is the man who has been, by baptism, made ' a member ' of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the ' kingdom of heaven ?' Is he who has been signed with the sign of the cross, in token ' that he...

...witness to my spirit, that I am bought with the blood of the Lamb ; and that believing in him, " I am a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." I rejoice, because the sense of God's love to me, hath by the same Spirit wrought...