Martin Chemnitz Quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

The Gospel declares those who believe righteous and saved.

And Christ says of that which is blessed, which is offered, received, eaten and drunk: This is My body; this is My blood.