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.

2. That the Son, sent for us, * 1.1 subsist∣ed before he took humane flesh in the womb of the Virgin.

John. 1.1, 2. In the beginning was the Verb (or the word as our Bibles have it translated) and the Verb was with God, and the Verb was God, he was in the beginning with God, and vers. the 14 and the Verb hath been made flesh and dwelt amongst us.

Phil. 2.6, 7. Jesus Christ being in form of God he hath not reputed it rapine to be equal with God, so he became nothing himself, having taken the forme of a servant, made in the likeness of man, found in figure as a man, he did, I say, abase him∣self.

2 Cor. 8, 9. You know the grace of Jesus Christ our Lord, viz. that he made himself poor for you, though

he were rich, that by his Poverty you might be rich.

John. 8.58. Jesus said to them verily, verily, I say unto you before Abraham was made I am.

Notes

• * 1.1

  John. 3 13. comp. with John. 662. 1 Cor. 10.9.