Although the whole man partakes of this grace, it is first and most appropriately in the soul and later progresses to the body, inasmuch as the body of the man is capable of the same obedience to the will of God as the soul. William Ames Read Quote
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. William Ames Read Quote
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. William Ames Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Nothing exists from eternity but God, and God is not the matter or a part of any creature, but only the maker. William Ames Read Quote
