The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology - Saint Mary ...

Mediator and Saviour, for it is admitted that when the Scripture says a
thing is done in the name of Christ, it denotes that this pertains to the
person according to each nature."
"In regard to that presence of the whole Christ in the Church, there
are special promises in the Word of God. For (Matt. xxviii.) when Jesus,
after His Resurrection, had appeared upon a mountain in Galilee to more
than five hundred of His disciples at once, when He was before them, not
in His divinity alone, but whole and entire, in both natures, so that by that
very presence on that mountain He gave the demonstration and the
confirmation of the fact that He had risen in His true body, so that His
disciples, when they saw Him, worshipped him, and when some doubted,
as if there were a spirit, or a spectre appearing in an outward and visible
form, Jesus approached and spake to them--all which, beyond controversy,
pertains to the human nature which Christ assumed. And when He gave
the command to His disciples to gather a Church throughout the whole
world, He added the promise, 'Lo! I am with you always, even unto the
end of the world.' That promise, therefore, is rightly understood of the
whole Christ, God and man, according to both natures; for He who was
then and there before them, promised His presence with His Church
through all time--but He was then present, not in His Divinity alone, but
showing that even after His Resurrection, in glory, he had and retained the
verity of His human nature. And He who was then entire in each nature,
by a sure word and peculiar promise, says: 'I am present with you'
(wherever, to wit, my Church shall be, throughout the whole world). And
there is no reason whatever, in that most sweet promise of the presence of
Christ in His Church, why we should separate and exclude that nature
which was assumed by Him in which He is our kinsman and brother, and
by which we 'are members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones,'
(Eph. v. 30,) since He, in giving the promise, marks and describes, by
many circumstances, the nature he assumed, as we have shown from the
text." With similar conclusiveness does Chemnitz reason in regard to other
passages, as, for instance, Mark xvi. 19, 20. “’The