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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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.William Ames
In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
William Ames
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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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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This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.
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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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