Double Act Quotes by William Ames

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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…
• Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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;…
• An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not…

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