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