The Apology [Defense] of the Augsburg Confession
Article XIX: Of the
Cause of Sin.
77] The Nineteenth Article the adversaries receive, in which
we confess that, although God only and alone has framed all nature, and
preserves all things which exist, yet (He is not the cause of sin, but]
the cause of sin is the will in the devil and men turning itself away from
God, according to the saying of Christ concerning the devil, John 8, 44:
When he speaketh a he, he speaketh of his own
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