...His Holy Spirit ; arid, in our catechism, to speak of children as by the ordinance of baptism made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of Heaven. These expressions are doubtless strong ; and so are St. Paul's expressions respecting the benefits...

...on his sovereign will. We are his, because we have been baptised into his Church, and were thus made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. This is all true: hut it is not the point. Are we all his, emphatically ? Is there that union,...

...its catechism, teaches all who have been baptized into its faith, to say, that they were thereby made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. This mistake has arisen from not keeping in mind, that the external and internal of the church...

...man's wisdom could have devised, or his cold, dull, stubborn heart even now believe. They vfere made "members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of Heaven." Who shall tell their dignity ? Who shall declare their spiritual generation ? Sons of God...

...unpardonable apostacy, or final impenitence, are, by the merciful covenant of grace, recognized as members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. This great truth is therefore put forward by the founder of our holy religion, the author and...

...divine revelation, in the steady pursuance of which, we may be regenerate and. born anew, and become 'members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven.' " Let the educator well understand what the church means by these phrases ; he wil! then be...

...that what God gives is given mainly at once. The highest privileges of the Church, the being made " members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven" — the participation in the Holy Spirit, all are communicated in baptism. But still there...

...this must be your knowledge ; this will make you Christians, but nothing else will; this will make you members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven, but nothing else will; this, but this only. So much then, this afternoon, for the reading of...

...with God; the promises of God were visibly sealed to them in Holy Baptism, whereby they were " made members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven;" they have been taught their duty, and been the subjects of fervent and effectual prayer, —...

...in the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and that it is by baptism that we are made " members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven." a. They taught, as the Catholic Church has always taught, that the only ground of the justification...