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A passing notice at the Particular Creeds will 

 now occupy our attention. These creeds came 

 into existence at or subsequent to the Reforma- 

 tion. 



1. Krautli ('Conservative Reformation p. 212) 

 says: " First in place, and first in importance 

 among those great documentary testimonies of 

 the Church which came forth in the Reforma- 

 tion, is the Augsburg Confession." Its date is 

 A. D. 1530. 



Article 17 reads as follows: ''Also they (the 

 el in relies) teach that in the consummation of the 

 world Christ shall appear to judge, and shall 

 raise up all the dead, and shall give unto the 

 godly and elect, eternal life, and everlasting 

 joys: but ungodly men and the devils shall be 

 condemned unto endless torments (id sine fine 

 crucientur). They condemn the Anabaptists, 

 who think that to condemn men and the devils, 

 shall be an end of torments (Jin em pcznarum 

 futuTum esse)" Krauth, p. 23. 



2. Thirty nine Articles of the Church of 

 England (A. D. 1562). 



Article 8. '• The three creeds, Nicene Creed, 

 Athanasius Creed, * * * * and Ajjostles' Creed, 

 ought thoroughly to be received and believed; 

 for they may be proved by most certain warrant 

 of Holy Scripture." 



This adoption of the Athanasian Creed is a 



