William Ames God Quotations

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

But the church cannot confer the necessary gifts for this ministry, and cannot prescribe for God those upon whom he should confer them.

The worship which directs itself toward God as our good regards him either as he is ours at present, in faith, or as he is to be ours, in hope.

The counsel of God is, as it were, his deliberation over the best manner of accomplishing anything already approved by the understanding and the will.

Hearing here, therefore, means any receiving of the word of God whether it be communicated to us by preaching, reading, or any other way.