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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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
Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
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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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The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
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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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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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