So the Church imitates the Lord's mother - not in the bodily sense, which it could not do - but in mind it is both mother and virgin. In no way, then, did Christ deprive his mother of her virginity by being born, seeing that he made his Church into a virgin by redeeming her fornication with demons.

So the Church too, like Mary, enjoys perpetual virginity and uncorrupted fecundity.

But it isn't just a matter of faith, but of faith and works. Each is necessary. For the demons also believe -you heard the apostle- and tremble (Jas 2:19); but…

Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.