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Article XIX: Of the Cause of Sin.
Of the
Cause of
Sin they teach that, although
God does
create and
preserve nature, yet the cause of sin is the will of the
wicked, that is, of the
devil and
ungodly men; which will,
unaided of God, turns itself from God, as Christ says John 8, 44: When he speaketh a
lie, he speaketh of his own.