_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 VIII. 
 
     The eighth article of the Confession, concerning wicked
     ministers of the Church and hypocrites - viz. that their
     wickedness does not injure the sacraments and the Word - is
     accepted with the Holy Roman Church, and the princes commend
     it, condemning on this topic the Donatists and the ancient
     Origenists, who maintained that it was unlawful to use the
     ministry of the wicked in the Church - a heresy which the
     Waldenses and Poor of Lyons revived. Afterwards John Wicliff
     in England and John Huss in Bohemia adopted this.
 
 
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