VII. Did I say another God? I meant another mode of Deity. But if it offend you that I say another God, say another Person [i.e. as Servetus understands the word, another manifestation] of Deity. Why quote that against me which I have myself corrected? But you show your candour on all occasions! ARTICLE. VIII. Christ is said to be the Son of God not only and in as much as he was engendered by God in the womb of the Virgin Mary; and this, not by the virtue of the Holy Ghost, but by God of his proper substance. REPLY. VIII. Is not he rightly called the son of him by whom he is begotten? Therefore do I say that God from eternity and of his substance produced [protulit] this Son; and therefore is he said to be of God naturally. ARTICLE. IX. The Word of God coming down from heaven, is said to have been the flesh of Christ; so that the flesh of Christ is from heaven, his body being the body of God, his soul the soul of God; both his soul and body having existed from Eternity in the proper substance of Deity. REPLY. IX. The Word, I say, is now the flesh of Christ by hypostatical union. I say well, therefore, that the flesh of Christ is from heaven, and indeed is the heavenly Manna. What else I say, I admit in the sense in which I conceive it. You fasten on such things as these, and neglect the main truth! ARTICLE. X. The essence of the soul and body of Christ is declared to be the Deity of the Word and the Spirit, and Christ to have existed from the beginning in respect of his body as well as his soul, 409 the substance of the Deity being not only in the soul but in the body of Christ. REPLY. X. Essence is spoken of as that by which anything is sustained. Art thou not ashamed to calumniate me, or dost thou think that with thy savage barking thou wilt dull the ears of the Judges? ARTICLE. XI. As if to show that to him the divinity of Christ is mere mockery, he says that it means the wisdom, the power, and the splendour of God; as if it were only a certain wisdom and power that in him was excelling. REPLY. XI. You do unjustly ever; you quote me falsely. I do not say what you charge me with saying. and the splendour of God; as if it were only a certain wisdom and power that in him was excelling. ARTICLE. XII. The man Jesus is said to have been from the beginning in his proper person and substance, in or with God; and yet two persons are elsewhere ascribed to Christ. REPLY. XII. What you say first is most true, and I wish you understood it. Christ in himself is one person; but in him verily is the Holy Spirit, who is also a person. ARTICLE.