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.
William AmesThe 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 AmesThe passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.
William Ames