...home with him to heaven to be his children for ever : and that is the way, I think, that God makes members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the. kingdom of heaven." " Well, {said I,) my child, by some means or other you have got very clear views of truth ; but what...

...what the baptized people have tobelieve is God's promise that when they are baptized He makes them members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven, if they will only repent, and believe, and go on to obey His Commandments. So all that God requires...

...which no honest man can escape, regenerated by His Holy Spirit : we teach them that they were made members of Christ, children of God and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven : we take security, so to speak, that the spiritual life thus begun, shall be carried on to its proper...

...of many in the world or the Church, it is a thing which we should strive against as degrading to the members of Christ, children of God. and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven. I have said that the sheep and the shepherd are ever found together. We cannot see a flock without...

...taken baptism — being born of water — in the sense that it communicates spiritual life ; " makes members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven." And on the other hand, vast numbers believe that God, in some way analogous to natural generation,...

...of many in the world or the Church, it is a thing which we should strive against as degrading to the members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven. I have said that the sheep and the shepherd are ever found together. We cannot see a flock without...

...the second Eve, joined to Him in a spiritual marriage and unity, and enabling all who will, to become members of CHRIST, children of GOD, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven. O wondrous second birth! 0 glorious citizenship ! O Mother Church, " fulness of Him that filleth all...

...save. How is the thing done? One is very curious to know when one hears of an operation which makes men members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven, how the thing is done. It must in itself be a holy thing, truthful in all its details, and edifying...

...numbers are, as far as possible, kept down by economical and prudent rulers to the market demand for members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven." There may be a few clergymen still living—we think we have met them in the flesh, and it is a weariness...

...things, it had the most direct bearing on the eternal prospects of the Hebrew Christians. They were members of Christ, children of God, and inheritors of the kingdom of heaven, and their one business was to heartily thank God that He had called them to this state of salvation,...