Next, you
believe in the forgiveness of sins.
This is the grace by which those who believe in and confess God and Christ
receive in baptism the remission of all their sins. We call it a rebirth,
because it makes a man more innocent and pure than when he is born from his
mother’s womb. (Niceta of Remesiana, Explanation of the Creed, 10,
in Writings, Commonitories, Grace and Freewill [trans. Gerald G. Walsh;
The Fathers of the Church 7; Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of
America Press, 1949], 50)