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Firsts Quotes by William Ames
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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