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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The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.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.
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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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Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
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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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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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