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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."

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"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."

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"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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"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."
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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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"The will of God is single and totally one in Him."
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"Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers."
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"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."
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"The efficiency of God may be understood as either creation or providence."
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"This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties."
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"The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin."
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