The ordinary ministry is that which receives all of its direction from the will of God revealed in the Scriptures and from those means which God has appointed in the church for its continual edification.

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.