William Ames Quotes

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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.
• 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…
• Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.
• 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…
• In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
• This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
• 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 starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
• 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…
• The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
• 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…
• 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…
• Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
• Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.
• 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 agrees…
• Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.
• 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…
• The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.
• 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…
• The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

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