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Which Quotes by William Ames
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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