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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