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From Quotes by William Ames
- 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…
- 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…
- Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.
- 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…
- Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
- 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…
- 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…
- Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would…
- 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…
- 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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