...for Holy Communion, baptism have them initiated into the Christian covenant, whereby they become " members of CHRIST, children of GOD, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven !"* How salutary the influence of this devotion of their children, upon the parents themselves ; awakening...

...put into a capacity of enjoying life and bliss eternal ; or, in the words of the catechism, we become members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. Into this covenant we are initiated in our earliest infancy, by the instrumentality of our sponsors,...

...traversing the Bolton Streets, I would have said — •" Most of these, my lord, were pronounced at their baptism, ' members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven;' and about two years ago, they renewed the promises of their God-parents, ' fo renounce the devil and...

...were born in a Christian country, and early dedicated to God in baptism ; " wherein we " were made members of Christ, children of God, " and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven ;" that we had good and indulgent parents, who gave us a pious and ingenuous education, and brought...

...or, which is the dame, did they live up to their dignity, and every where consider themselves as " members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven," " what manner of persons," yea, what angels " would they be in all holy conversation !" Sometimes their...

...can never persuade a staunch high-churchman that those whom the prayer-book pronounces to be made in baptism members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven, are not so. You cannot persuade one who dearly loves his church, but who loves the Bible better, that...

...God, the election of grace, and the inheritance of the saints. True believers when baptized, become members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven ; but unbelievers, though baptized, though formally washed with water in the name of the Father. Son,...

...with the Holy Spirit;" neither could we teach our children to say, that in Baptism they were " made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven." The office of godfather and godmother, also, whatever may be said in explanation of its origin, is...

...faith," and " to obey his commandments ;" which if we will not perform, how can we expect to be made " members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven?" A free-born Isaac shall cast out both the bondwoman and her son ; and a dutiful and obedient Jacob...

...requisite act »f profanation is performed forthwith, and the said children are baptized, or " made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven," at a dump* or quarter-dollar a head, exelusive of the fee for the churching of the woman ; Mr. Joseph...