William Ames Quotes

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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 Bligh

  Topics in God

  Tags in Faith, Faithfulness

• This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.

  William Ames

• Therefore, the church is not absolutely necessary as an object of faith, not even for us today, for then Abraham and the other prophets would not have given assent to those things which were revealed to them from God without any intervening help of the church.

  William Ames

• 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

• The will of God is single and totally one in Him.

  William Ames

• 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.

  William Ames

• The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

  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.

  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

• 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.

  William Ames

• The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.

  William Ames

• 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.

  William Ames

• The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence.

  William Ames

• The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.

  William Ames

• Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God’s image.

  William Ames

• 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

• 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

• Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker.

  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

• In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

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William Ames (27)

Birth:	1576
Death:	14th November, 1633
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Controversialist, Philosopher

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