"For we can affirm with a good conscience……" — Martin Chemnitz
"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 extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity."
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Martin Chemnitz
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13 Quotes by Martin Chemnitz
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I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by…
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As however the ancients say that in case of necessity any Christian lay person can administer the sacrament of baptism,…
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This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the…
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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…
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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,…
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In the first place, our faith ought to lay hold on Christ as God and man in that nature by…
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For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between…
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The Gospel declares those who believe righteous and saved.
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And there is a difference between the essence of a Sacrament and its use.
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Thus first of all in His own person He sanctified, restored, and blessed human nature.
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And Christ says of that which is blessed, which is offered, received, eaten and drunk: This is My body; this…
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Nevertheless the meaning is not that the blessed bread which is divided, which is offered, and which the apostles received…
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The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love…
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In 1891, during the Presidency of William Henry Harrison [Benjamin Harrison], electric lights were first installed in the White House,…
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