Faith grounded upon the Holy Scriptures against the new Methodists / by John Daille ; printed in French at Paris anno 1634, and now Englished by M.M.

CHAP. III. Of the Creation, nature, and corruption of man.

1. That God created man at the begin∣ning after his own Image.

GEn. 1.26, 27. Furthermore God said: let us make man accord∣ing to our Image and similitude, and let him have dominion over the fishes of the Sea, and over the Birds of the heavens, * 1.1 and over the beasts, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing creeping upon the earth. God then created man according to his own Image and likeness; he created him according to the Image of God.

2. That man is fallen from his hap∣piness by his disobedience.

You have the History of it in the third Chapter of Gen. and 7 Eccles. 30. God hath made man right and he hath intangled himself with infi∣nite questions.

3. That by the disobedience of the first man all his posterity have been subjected to sin and death.

Rom. 5.12. By one man sin en∣tered into the world, and by sin death. And so death is come upon all men, in that all have sinned.

1 Cor. 15.22. All die in Adam.

4. That all men are from their na∣ture defiled by sin and subject to death.

Rom. 3.23. All have sinned, and have need of the glory of God.

Eph. 2.23. We have all convers∣ed sometimes in the concupiscences of our flesh, executing the desires of the flesh, and of our thoughts, and were from nature children of wrath as others, and in verse the fifth we were dead in sin.

5. That this corruption is in men from their birth.

Psal. 50. (Heb. 51.) Behold truly

I have been conceived in iniquity, and my mother hath conceived me in sin.

John. 3.6. That which is born of the flesh is flesh.

Job. 14.4. Who can make man clean who is conceived of filthyness? is it not thou only?

Notes

• * 1.1

  Gen. 2.7, 8, 15, 17.