Quotes by William Ames - Page 1

The will of God is single and totally one in Him.
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Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.
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Doctrine
Teaching
Theology
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The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.
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Attributes
Attributes Of God
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Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
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Gods Will
Hearing
Receiving
Devout
Word
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The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.
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Creation
Efficiency
May
Providence
Understood
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Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.
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End Of The World
Ends
Longing
Believers
World End End Of The World
Hence
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The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given
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Acquiescence
Contentment
Mind
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The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
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Corruption
Sanctification
Sin
Starting
Starting Over
Starting Point
Stain
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In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
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Contentment
Height
Joy
Neighbor
Perfection
Towards
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Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
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Men
Purity
Real
Sanctification
Sin
Image
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The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
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All Things
Divine
Divine Will
Pleasure
God Good Will
Determining
Effectively
Freely
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This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
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Essence
Property
Subsistence
Manner
Properties
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Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.
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Eternity
Makers
Matter
Creature
Maker
Exists
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The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.
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Men
Grace
Spiritual
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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.
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Faith
Faithfulness
Giving
May
Virtue
Gives
Him
Lean
Obtain
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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 willed before.
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Cease
Doe
Eternal
Gods Will
Begin
Willed
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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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Eternity
Existence
According
Ordering
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Participation in the blessings of the union with Christ comes when the faithful have all the things needed to live well and blessedly to God.
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Blessing
Christ
Faithful
Participation
Unions
Union
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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 universal.
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Fitness
Goodness
Perfection
Use
Serve
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The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were, by an inward word.
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Men
Heart
Spiritual
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For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.
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Neighbor
Conceive
Joined
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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 God.
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Concern
Firsts
Yield
Concerns
Therefore
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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 with the divine nature.
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Agree
Decree
Divine
Divine Nature
Efficiency
Exercise
Firsts
Perfect
Manner
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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 does not come from anywhere else.
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Men
Doe
Ideas
Impressed
Afterwards
Anywhere
Anywhere Else
Expressed
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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 same essence and perfectly carry on the Father's nature.
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Essence
Father
Property
Relative
Son
Carry
Participant
Perfectly
Proceed
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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 and called upon, and to be heard in all things.
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Afterlife
All Things
Heard
Believed
Loved
Hoped
Necessarily
Rightly
Understands
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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 God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.
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Religion
Bears
Communion
Hearing
Prayer
Referring
Spiritual
Love God Faith
Arises
Double
Word
Virtues
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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 God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.
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Church
Mean
Ministry
Ordinary
Appointed
Direction
Receives
Revealed
Scriptures
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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 body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul.
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Men
Capable
Grace
Obedience
Soul
God Man Soul
Inasmuch
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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 but not formally transitive because it makes, not presupposes, an object.
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Action
Active
Agents
Concerned
Creation
Agent
Conceived
Object
Virtually
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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 in Scripture, sometimes referring to outward and sometimes to inward or effectual separation.
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Inward
Ordinary
Referring
Sanctification
Scripture
Separation
Special
Understood
Effectual
Meaning
Outward
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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 not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.
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Abraham
Church
Helping
Intervening
Today
Assent
Object
Prophets
Revealed
Therefore
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