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De Virginitate B. Mariae

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Igitur sanctus mihi invocandus est Spiritus, ut beatae Mariae virginitatem suo sensu, ore meo defendat. Invocandus est Dominus Jesus, ut sacri ventris hospitium, cujus decem mensibus inhabitator fuit, ab omni concubitus suspicione tueatur. Ipse quoque Deus Pater est imprecandus, ut matrem Filii sui, virginem ostendat fuisse post partum, quae fuit mater antequam nupta. Non campum rhetorici desideramus eloquii, non Dialecticorum tendiculas, nec Aristotelis spineta conquirimus: ipsa Scripturarum verba ponenda sunt: ipsis quibus adversum nos usus est testimoniis, revincatur, ut intelligat, se et legere potuisse quae scripta sunt, et non potuisse quae pietate roborata sunt, cognoscere.

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The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary

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I must call upon the Holy Spirit to express His meaning by my mouth and defend the virginity of the Blessed Mary. I must call upon the Lord Jesus to guard the sacred lodging of the womb in which He abode for ten months from all suspicion of sexual intercourse. And I must also entreat God the Father to show that the mother of His Son, who was a mother before she was a bride, continued a Virgin after her son was born. We have no desire to career over the fields of eloquence, we do not resort to the snares of the logicians or the thickets of Aristotle. We shall adduce the actual words of Scripture. Let him be refuted by the same proofs which he employed against us, so that he may see that it was possible for him to read what is written, and yet to be unable to discern the established conclusion of a sound faith.