Something from Martin Chemnitz on the Human Nature of Jesus Christ

Martin Chemnitz (1522-1586) is known as the second Martin because without him, the work and theology of Martin Luther may have been swept away to trivial bits of history.  Chemnitz worked tirelessly to defend and confess the teachings of the Bible, both critiquing Roman Catholic teachings as espoused in the Council of Trent and in addressing false teachings that were creeping into the Lutheran Church.  

Chemnitz' work is best known among Lutherans in the Formula of Concord.  The quotation below, however, is from The Two Natures in Christ, in which Chemnitz details how God the Son, by taking the human nature into him binds himself to us.  He explains the comfort that we derive from this union of human and divine natures, as it secures our salvation and future glorification.

Here is something from Martin Chemnitz:

"What sweet comfort this is that the Son of God, our Savior, joins Himself to us and deals with us not with His bare (nuda) deity, but in, with, and through the nature in which He is like a head, our kinsman, and of the same substance with us, His members...  Here is a most present and certain pledge of our glorification.  For how could His members be forever left in their miseries when our Head by the very same nature by which He is our kinsman and of the same substance with us, which is now in the glory of the Father, has joined Himself to us most intimately in the sorrows of this present life?  These comforts are weakened and completely lost if we remove the substance of Christ's human nature or exclude it from the Lord's Supper, which is celebrated at in the church on earth." (page 289, The Second Martin: The Life and Theology of Martin Chemnitz.  J. A. O. Preus.  Concordia Publishing House: St. Louis, MO.  (c) 1994. A quotation from The Two Natures in Christ, pages 472-473.)