The passive receiving of Christ is the process by which a spiritual principle of grace is generated in the will of man.
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 AmesSanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
William Ames