Everyone who understands the nature of God rightly necessarily knows that God is to be believed and hoped in, that he is to be loved and called upon, and to be heard in all things.

He spent much time in the Netherlands and is noted for his involvement in the controversy between the Calvinists and the Arminians. William Ames (Latin: Guilielmus Amesius) (1576 – 14 November 1633) was an English Protestant divine philosopher and controversialist.