Martin Chemnitz

I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

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And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

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For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

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In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been made our neighbor, kinsman, and brother. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

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Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

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Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the fathers which agree with the Scripture. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

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Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature. ↗

— Martin Chemnitz

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