SECT. IX. A solution of the Mahometans’ objection concerning the Son of God.
THE Mahometans say, they are offended, because we ascribe a Son to God, who makes nu use of a wife; as if the word son, as it refers to God, could not have a more divine signification. But Mahomet himself ascribes many things to God, no less unworthy of him, than if it were said he had a wife; for instance, that he has a cold hand, and that himself experienced it by a touch;788788 that he is carried about in a chair, and the like.789789 Now we, when we call Jesus the Son of God, mean the same thing that he did, when he calls him the Word of God:790790 for the word is in a peculiar manner produced from the mind:791791 to which we may add, that he was born of a virgin, by the help of God alone, who supplied the power of a father; that he was taken up into heaven by the power of God; which things, and those that 240 Mahomet confesses, shew, that Jesus may and ought to be called the Son of God, by a peculiar right.792792