These are the feet^[1] that David washes in spirit when he teaches you how to keep them unsoiled, saying, Our feet have been standing in your courts, O Jerusalem. Certainly, here feet is to be understood not as of the body but as of the soul. For how could a person on earth have his physical feet in heaven? Since Jerusalem, as Paul tells you, is in heaven, he also shows you how to stand in heaven when he says, But our abode is in heaven:^[2] the abode of your behavior, the abode of your deeds, the abode of your faith.

Let them,^[1] then, have a bitter sorrow for their former detestable wrongdoing, as Peter had for his cowardly lie, and let them come to the true church, that is, their catholic mother, and let them be clerics or bishops in it with as much service for it as they formerly used against it. We do not begrudge it to them; on the contrary, we embrace them, we beg them, we exhort them, we compel them to come in when we find them in the highways and hedges. Even so, we do not yet persuade some of them that we seek them, not their possessions. When the apostle Peter denied the Savior and wept and remained an apostle, he had not yet received the Holy Spirit who had been promised,^[2] but much less have they received him when, severed from the unity of the body to which alone the Holy Spirit gives life,^[3] they have maintained the sacraments of the church outside the church and in opposition to the church and have fought a kind of civil war, setting up our own banners and our own arms against us. Let them come; let there be peace in the strength of Jerusalem, the strength that is charity, as it was said to the holy city: Let peace be in your strength and abundance in your towers. Let them not rise up against the motherly anxiety that she had and has to gather them in, and with them so many throngs of people whom they deceive or did deceive. Let them not be proud, because she thus welcomes them. Let them not turn to the evil purpose of self-esteem what she does for the good purpose of peace.