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Defense Topics

• Philip Melanchthon’s Greeting
• God
• Original Sin
• Christ
• Justification
• Of Love and Fulfilling of the Law
• The Church
• Baptism
• The Holy Supper
• Confession
• Repentance
• Confession and Satisfaction
• The Number and Use of the Sacraments
• Ecclesiastical Order
• Human Traditions in the Church
• Political Order
• Christ’s Return to Judgment
• Free Will
• The Cause of Sin
• Good Works
• The Invocation of the Saints
• Both Kinds in the Lord’s Supper
• The Marriage of Priests
• The Mass
• Monastic Vows
• Ecclesiastical Power

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Article XIX: Of the Cause of Sin.

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 lie, he speaketh of his own.