ABSTRACT
Article XVIII stands as it was originally published in 1553. The copula with which it begins is difficult to account for. “They also are to be had accursed”. The language of the Article has not been traced to any earlier source, but there is a section in the Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum which affords a close parallel to it. From the fact that the Article begins with a definite anathema of certain people, and couples the opinion denounced with that condemned in Article XVI., it is clear that it is no vague opinion that is intended to be here rejected, but the positive teaching of a particular set of persons. The Article are evidently intended to rebuke the same error; and it has sometimes been thought that the opinion condemned is that which maintains a possibility of salvation for the heathen, and those who have never heard the name of Christ.
