William Ames
William Ames
William Ameswas 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...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
William Ames quotes about
starting-over sin corruption
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
church today helping
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.
yield firsts concern
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.
father son essence
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.
attributes attributes-of-god
The attributes of God tell us what He is and who He is.
hearing receiving gods-will
Hearing the word is the devout receiving of the will of God.
agents action creation
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.
perfection use goodness
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.