Top 19 William Ames Quotes

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The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, tha

The relative property of the Son is to be begotten, that is, so to proceed from the Father as to be a participant of the same essence and perfectly carry on the Father’s nature.
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The will of God is single and totally one in Him.
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In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
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The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.
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From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.
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The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.
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An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.
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This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
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The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
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The will of God is eternal because He does not begin to will what He did not will before, nor cease to will what He willed before.
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The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.
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Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.
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Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.
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Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.
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Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
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Active creation is conceived as a transitive action in which there is always presupposed an object about which the agent is concerned; it is virtually but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
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The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.
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The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.
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Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.
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