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William Ames (/eɪmz/; Latin: Guilielmus Amesius; 1576 – 14 November 1633) was an English Protestant divine, philosopher, and controversialist. He spent much time in the Netherlands, and is noted for his involvement in the controversy between the Calvinists and the Arminians.

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

Corruption, Filthiness, Sanctification, Sin, Stain, Starting Over

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.

Carry, Essence, Father, Perfectly, Son

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

Contentment, Height, Joy, Love, Perfection

Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.

God, Gods Will, Hearing, Receiving, Word

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.

Divine, Efficiency, Exercise, Firsts, God, Perfect

An idea in man is first impressed upon him and afterwards expressed in things, but in God it is only expressed, not impressed, because it does not come from anywhere else.

Come, Doe, God, Ideas, Men, Things

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.

Blessing, Faithful, Live, Things, Union, Unions

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

Attributes, Attributes Of God, God, Tell

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.

Goodness, Perfection, Serves, Use

Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.

Believers, Ends, Longing, World

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.

Faith, Faithfulness, Giving, Lean, May, Virtue

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.

Afterlife, All Things, Heard, Hoped, Understands

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.

Church, Direction, Edification, Mean, Ordinary

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.

Doe, Eternal, God, Gods Will, Willed

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

Creation, Efficiency, God, May, Providence

The inward offer is a kind of spiritual enlightenment, whereby the promises are presented to the hearts of men, as it were, by an inward word.

Heart, Men, Presented, Spiritual, Whereby

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

Creature, Eternity, God, Makers, Matter

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

God, Gods Will, Single, Totally

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.

Double, Faith, Hearing, Prayer, Religion, Spiritual

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.

Inward, Ordinary, Special, Understood

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