...to arrogate to themselves exclusive Christianity — which haughtily asserts, that no man can become a " member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven," unless an Episcopalian priest makes a cross on his forehead — that no man...

...believer, as heaven is irreconcilable with hell, and Christ with Belial. If a man can be a believer, 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...

...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 a glad excuse to the disaffected:...

...Christian, and therefore hath a Christian name given him, even at his baptism, " wherein he was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven." Which great privileges belong to all that are baptized, and to none else; none...

...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?...

...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...

...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...

...Christian, and therefore hath a Christian name given him, even at his baptism, " wherein he was made a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven ;" which great privileges belong to all that are baptized, and to none else ;...

...hearty thanks ;' — and every child taught in her schools is instructed that he has been really made 'a member of Christ, a child of God, and an inheritor of the kingdom of heaven.'" It is painfully observable, that these things are not referred to as objectionable on the ground of their...