From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us; the hearing of the word and prayer.

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.