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 Copy Share Image
This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God,… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by which He has been… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
And Christ says of that which is blessed, which is offered, received, eaten and drunk: This is My body; this is My blood. — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
Therefore we examine with considerable diligence the consensus of the true, learned, and purer antiquity, and we love and praise the testimonies of the… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of baptism, so Luther says the… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature. — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
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… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
