The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.
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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.William Ames
The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.
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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.
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Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.
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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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