_The Confutatio Pontificia:  
   
  In Reference To The Matters Presented To His Imperial Majesty   
   By The Elector Of Saxony And Some Princes And States Of The   
     Holy Roman Empire, On The Subject And Concerning Causes  
    Pertaining To The Christian Orthodox Faith, The Following   
          Christian Reply Can Be Given._ August 3, 1530.   
                        Edited by J.M. Reu.   
                           Published in   
         _The Augsburg Confession, A Collection of Sources._  
       (Fort Wayne, IN: Concordia Theological Seminary Press),  
                            pp. 349-383.


                          To Article XVII.

     The confession of the seventeenth article is received, since
     from the Apostles' Creed and the Holy Scripture the entire
     Catholic Church knows that Christ will come at the last day
     to judge the quick and the dead. Therefore they justly
     condemn here the Anabaptists, who think there will be an end
     of punishments to condemned men and devils, and imagine
     certain Jewish kingdoms of the godly, before the resurrection
     of the dead, in this present world, the wicked being
     everywhere suppressed.
      
 
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