Of God and His Creatures
That Christ was born of virgin without prejudice to His true and natural Humanity
GOD'S power being infinite, and all other causes deriving their
efficacy from that, any effect produced by any cause may be produced by
God without aid of that cause, and yet be of the same species and
nature as though it had been produced in the ordinary way. As then the
natural power of the human semen produces a true man, having the
species and nature of a man, so the divine power, which has given that
power to the semen, may produce the effect of that power, without
calling the cause into activity, and so constitute a true man, having
the species and nature of a man. Nor is anything lost to the dignity of
the Mother of Christ by the virgin conception and birth: there is
nothing in that to prevent her being called the Mother of the Son of
God: for by the working of divine power she supplied the matter
physically requisite for the generation of the body of Christ: which is
all that a mother need do.
4.44 : That the Human Nature, assumed by the Word, was perfect in Soul and Body in the instant of Conception
4.46, 47 : That Christ was conceived by the Holy Ghost