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. — William Ames Copy Share Image
Sanctification is not to be understood here as a separation from ordinary use or consecration to some special use, although this meaning is often present in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation. — William Ames Copy Share Image
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin. — William Ames Copy Share Image
Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker. — William Ames Copy Share Image
Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets… — William Ames Copy Share Image
In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor. — William Ames Copy Share Image
An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because… — William Ames Copy Share Image
The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things. — William Ames Copy Share Image
The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means… — William Ames Copy Share Image
Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image. — William Ames Copy Share Image
The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular… — William Ames Copy Share Image
Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be… — William Ames Copy Share Image
From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised… — William Ames Copy Share Image
In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably… — William Ames Copy Share Image
The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things. — William Ames Copy Share Image
Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to… — William Ames Copy Share Image
