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William Ames Quotes

English - Philosopher | 1576 - November 14, 1633

Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

God Nothing Matter Eternity Only

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.

Live God Blessings Participation

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.

Present Meaning Sometimes Separation

Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.

Change God Man Sin Real Image

The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

God Efficiency Creation May Either

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.

God Religion First Act Things Us

The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

Good God Will Pleasure Divine Act

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.

Fitness Perfection Goodness Now Use

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.

God Direction Church Will Ordinary

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.

Nature Father Son Same Property

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

Corruption Sin Starting Point Stain

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.

God Will Begin Because He Did

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