Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
William Ames
Sanctification is the real ...
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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.
William Ames
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.
William Ames
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
William Ames
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.
William Ames
The virtue of contentment is the acquiescence of the mind in the lot God has given
William Ames
