| Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna - 1842 - 986 pages
...persuade a staunch high-churchman that those whom the prayer-book pronounces to be made in haptism members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven, are not so. Yon cannot persuade one who dearly loves his church, but who loves the Bible better, that... | |
| John Dunmore Lang - 1834 - 466 pages
...requisite act of 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 f or quarter-dollar a head, exclusive of the fee for the churching of the woman ; Mr. Joseph... | |
| Charles Lawson (M.A.) - 1834 - 422 pages
...grace sufficient for salvation, the admission into a state of covenant with God, by which we become " members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven." Let us not, however, imagine, that because, by the sacrament of baptism, we are placed in a capacity... | |
| John Brewster - 1834 - 382 pages
...18. 3 Rom. x. 12. us in the Gospel of his blessed Son, are we placed in a state of salvation, become members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. " And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding that we may know him... | |
| Richard Parkinson (D.D.) - 1835 - 448 pages
...justest views of their condition, as members of society, and of their heavenly and eternal affinities as members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. And, with respect to the doctrinal and practical errors now under consideration, these same principles... | |
| John William Fletcher - 1835 - 498 pages
...or which is the, same, 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 light... | |
| John Henry Hopkins - 1835 - 412 pages
...are thus solemnly consecrated to the service of the Almighty, and find, at last, that we are indeed members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. : LECTURE IV. HEBREW vi. 2. THE DOCTRINE OF BAPTISMS, AND OF LAYINO ON OF HANDS, AND OF RESUtRECTION... | |
| Edward Bickersteth - 1835 - 300 pages
...Church of England sets before us this hope, from the first instruction in our catechism, that " we are members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven ; " to the last prayer pronounced over our departed bodies,' " that it may please thee shortly to accomplish... | |
| John David Macbride - 1835 - 478 pages
...according to our Lord's command, we are admitted into the Church, and made, as our Catechism expresses it, members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. Such, accordingly, is the unanimous opinion of ancient interpreters, in conformity with which our Church... | |
| Henry Gauntlett - 1835 - 908 pages
...of their relation to the visible church ; and urged to examine themselves, whether they be indeed " members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven ;" or whether they are so only in name. They are exhorted to diligent self inquiry, whether they really... | |
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