But the church cannot confer the necessary gifts for this ministry, and cannot prescribe for God those upon whom he should confer them.
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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.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.
William Ames
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.
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.
William Ames
The worship which directs itself toward God as our good regards him either as he is ours at present, in faith, or as he is to be ours, in hope.
William Ames
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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