| William John Knox Little - 1898 - 408 pages
...they have received the Holy Ghost, making them His own temples in which He dwells, and making them " members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven." Thus we see the great importance of the Sacrament of Confirmation, as a " principle of the doctrine... | |
| 1899 - 244 pages
...signify. By Baptism, our sins are remitted and we receive the seed-principle of a new nature, become "members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven." By Absolution, pardon for our post-baptismal sins is assured to us, and the soul fortified by renewing... | |
| John Wordsworth - 1899 - 448 pages
...better instructed in the details of their faith than the majority of our own people, and none the less ' members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven,' were zealous believers in the Presbyterian system, and had many evidences of the presence of the Holy... | |
| Francis Ryan Montgomery Hitchcock - 1899 - 294 pages
...we all are members." Thus we have in Clement an anticipation of the very formula of our Catechism, "members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven." describes now as the " heavenly Jerusalem," now as "the Church on high above the clouds touching the... | |
| Clinton (Mass.) - 1900 - 272 pages
...and Pilate? Did the memories of those days change their lives? Did they — any of them — become "members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven?" All this and much more besides we shall never know in this world, because the sole object of the church... | |
| John Albert Babington - 1901 - 386 pages
...only . . ." — the " we " being ex hypothcsi the Christian believers who have already been made in baptism " members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven." they argued, " who is justified by faith is in a state of salvation, and, after his mortal course is... | |
| 1901 - 1012 pages
...by the precious blood of Thy Son, we thank Thee that Thou hast called us into the same and made us members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven. Look now, we beseech Thee, upon Thy Church, and take from it division and strife and whatsoever hinders... | |
| 1901 - 1094 pages
...by the precious blood of thy Son, we thank thee that thou hast called us into the same, and made us members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of * The Bishops of the Xifjnu Seiltotai, at a meeting held in Kobe on February 13-14, recommended to... | |
| 1903 - 566 pages
...on his list, who have wandered from the heavenly fold in which they were born and baptized — made members of Christ, children of God and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven — now as far away from their heavenly inheritance as if their homes were in heathen lands. Who is... | |
| Thomas Field - 1904 - 124 pages
...another place, at the very beginning of the Catechism, we are told that in our baptism we were made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. In a sense, as we said just now, all children of men are children of God, but they are separated from... | |
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