Martin Chemnitz Quotes

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• 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…
• As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of baptism, so Luther says the same…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.
• The Gospel declares those who believe righteous and saved.
• And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.
• For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the…
• Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.
• And Christ says of that which is blessed, which is offered, received, eaten and drunk: This is My body; this is My blood.
• Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received from the hand of Christ…

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