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Apology of the Augsburg Confession by Philipp Melanchthon
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obscured previously by those silly monastic opinions, which far
preferred the hypocrisy of poverty and humility to the state and the
family, although these have God's command, while this Platonic
communion [monasticism] has not God's command.




Part 22


Article XVII: _Of Christ's Return to Judgment._

The Seventeenth Article the adversaries receive without exception, in
which we confess that at the consummation of the world Christ shall
appear, and shall raise up all the dead, and shall give to the godly
eternal life and eternal joys, but shall condemn the ungodly to be
punished with the devil without end.




Part 23


Article XVIII: _Of Free Will._

The Eighteenth Article, Of Free Will, the adversaries receive,
although they add some testimonies not at all adapted to this case.
They add also a declamation that neither, with the Pelagians, is too
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