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William Ames
William Ames
English Philosopher
Born: 1576
Died: Nov 14, 1633
First God He Man Nature Will
Related authors: Alan Watts Francis Bacon George Henry Lewes Herbert Spencer Jeremy Bentham John Locke John Stuart Mill Thomas Hobbes
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
God Nature First Perfect Divine Divine Nature Most Exercise Efficiency Manner Working Decree Agree
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
World Could Been Nor Existence According Ordering Eternity Things Present
Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker. William Ames
God Matter Nothing Only Part Maker Exists Any Eternity Creature
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. William Ames
Creation Action Active Virtually Object About Conceived Concerned Because Makes Always Which Agent
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
God Nature Everyone Rightly Hoped All Things He Knows Understands Heard Loved Who Believed Things Necessarily
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
Good Nature Will Whatever Duty Our Neighbor Perfect Joined Conceive Most Known Least Us Should
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
Love Hope God Faith Religion Spiritual Prayer Word Virtues Bears Arises Between Hearing Referring Which Double Us Communion Act
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
God Christ Faithful Live Participation Blessings Well Union Things Needed
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
Sometimes Separation Some Outward Inward Although Understood Referring Effectual Often Ordinary Sanctification Scripture Meaning Use Special Present Here
The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is. William Ames
God Tell He Attributes Us Who
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
God Religion First Other Those Concerns Yield Which Us Act Therefore Things
The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things. William Ames
God Good Will Pleasure All Things Determining Divine Freely Effectively Act Things
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
Fitness Goodness Perfection Particular Either Which Created Use Now Serve Thing Universal
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
God Church Will Those Ministry Direction Revealed Ordinary Which Scriptures Means Receives Appointed
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
Today God Faith Church Other Intervening Those Would Object Abraham Given Prophets Absolutely Without Revealed Were Any Which Them Then Us Help Therefore Even Assent Things Necessary

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