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 AmesThe 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 AmesActive 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.
William Ames