The counsel of God is, as it were, his deliberation over the best manner of accomplishing anything already approved by the understanding and the will.
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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
In the exercise of God's efficiency, the decree of God comes first. This manner of working is the most perfect of all and notably agrees with the divine nature.
William Ames
Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.
William Ames
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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For this is our most perfect duty and yet least known to us by nature: Whatever we conceive or will should be joined with the good of our neighbor.
William Ames
The will of God is single and totally one in Him.
William Ames
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