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“The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.”

Men Spiritual Process Christ Principles Grace Receiving Passive

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“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.”

Men Heart Kind Spiritual Promise Offers Enlightenment Inward Spiritual Enlightenment

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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.”

Mean Church Ordinary Scripture Gods Will Ministry Edification

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“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.”

Men Firsts Soul Whole Body Grace Progress He Man Capable Gods Will Obedience

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

Sin Starting Corruption Starting Over Stains Starting Point Sanctification

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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.”

Use Particular Goodness Perfection Universal

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“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.”

Giving May Virtue Faithfulness Clinging

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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.”

Knows Heard All Things Afterlife

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

World Should Ends Longing Believer End Of The World

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“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.”

Spiritual Prayer Virtue Bears And Love Hearing Arise Communion Referring Hope And Love Faith Hope Faith Hope And Love

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

Joy Found Perfection Neighbor Height Contentment

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“This subsistence, or manner of being of God is his one essence so far as it has personal properties.”

Essence Property Subsistence

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“The good pleasure of God is an act of the divine will freely and effectively determining all things.”

Pleasure Divine All Things Divine Will

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“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.”

Action Creation Objects Concerned Active Agents

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“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.”

Men Firsts Doe Ideas Impressed Not Impressed

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

Hearing Gods Will Receiving Hearing God

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

Matter Creatures Eternity Makers

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“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.”

Firsts Perfect Divine Exercise Agree Efficiency Decree Divine Nature

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“Theology is the doctrine or teaching of living to God.”

Teaching Theology Doctrine

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“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 Cease Gods Will

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

Attributes Attributes Of God

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“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.”

Father Son Essence Property Relative Participants

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

May Creation Understood Providence Efficiency

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“Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.”

Men Real Sin Purity Sanctification Real Change

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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.”

Firsts Concern Yield

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“The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given”

Mind Given Virtue Contentment Acquiescence

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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.”

Sometimes Use Special Ordinary Understood Scripture Separation Inward Referring Sanctification Consecration

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“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.”

Wells Christ Needed Blessing Unions Faithful Participation God Bless Live Well

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

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“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.”

Helping Today Given Church Objects Prophet Abraham Intervening

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About the Author

Born: 1576
Died: November 14, 1633
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Quotes: 30

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