Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.
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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.William Ames
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.
William Ames
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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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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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.
William Ames
Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
William Ames
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