About William Ames: William Ames is noted for his involvement in the controversy between the Calvinists and the Arminians.
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 t...
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.
In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.
Hence the end of the world should be awaited with all longing by all believers.
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.
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
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.
The world has not been in existence from eternity nor could it have been according to the present dispensation and ordering of things.
