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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

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, they handed it on in the Scriptures.

Martin Chemnitz

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

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

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

Martin Chemnitz

Martin Chemnitz

Martin Chemnitz

Born: November 9, 1522

Died: April 8, 1586 (aged 63)

Bio: Martin Chemnitz was an eminent second-generation German Lutheran theologian, reformer, churchman, and confessor. In the Lutheran tradition he is known as Alter Martinus, the "Second Martin": Si Martinus non fuisset, Martinus vix stetisset goes a common saying concerning him.

Known for:

Book of Concord (1580)
Examination of the Council of Trent
The two natures in Christ
Ministry, word, and sacraments
Loci Theologici

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