Editing William Ames (section)

==Ministry in Holland==
He left Cambridge, and was offered a lecturer position at [[Colchester]], but [[George Abbot (Archbishop of Canterbury)|George Abbot]], the [[Bishop of London]], went against the wishes of the local corporation, and refused to grant institution and induction.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=21980|title=Tudor and Stuart Colchester: Religious life &#124; British History Online}}</ref> Similar rebuffs awaited him elsewhere, and he travelled with [[Robert Parker (minister)|Robert Parker]] to the [[Netherlands]], helped by English merchants who wished him to controvert the supporters of the English church in [[Leiden]]. At [[Rotterdam]], he debated with Grevinchovius ([[Nicholas Grevinckhoven]], died 1632), minister of the [[Arminian]] party, with reasoning from ''[[Philippians]]'' ii. 13, "It is God that worketh in us both to will and to do."
This dispute made his name in the Netherlands.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=850}}

Subsequently, Ames entered into a controversy in print with Grevinchovius on [[universal redemption]] and election, and [[cognate]] problems. He brought together all he had maintained in his ''Coronis ad Collationem Hagiensem'' (A Finishing Touch to the Hague Conference)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.apuritansmind.com/William%20Ames/WilliamAmes.htm |title=William Ames - Main Page |access-date=1 November 2008 |archive-date=6 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006110323/http://www.apuritansmind.com/William%20Ames/WilliamAmes.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>—his major book. At Leiden, Ames became intimate with [[Hugh Goodyear]], pastor of the English church there. He was sent for to [[The Hague]] by [[Sir Horatio Vere]], the English governor of [[Brielle|Brill]], who appointed him a minister in the army of the states-general, and of the English soldiers in their service. He married a daughter of [[John Burges]], who was Vere's chaplain, and, on his father-in-law's return to England, succeeded to his place.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=850}}

It was at this time he began his controversy with [[Simon Episcopius]], who, in attacking the ''Coronis'', railed against the author as having been "a disturber of the public peace in his native country, so that the English magistrates had banished him thence; and now, by his late printed ''Coronis'', he was raising new disturbances in the peaceable Netherlands." Episcopius was rebutted by Goodyear,{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=850}} who became a defender of Ames against the [[Remonstrants]], and later provided Nethenus with material for his biography of Ames.<ref>Keith L. Sprunger, ''Dutch Puritanism: A History of English and Scottish Churches of the Netherlands in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries'' (1982), p. 133.</ref>

The ''Coronis'' had been primarily prepared for the [[Synod of Dort]], which sat from 13 November 1618 until 9 May 1619. At this synod the position of Ames was anomalous. The [[High Church]] party in England had induced Vere to dismiss him from the [[chaplaincy]]; but he was still held in reverence. It was arranged he should attend the synod, and he was retained by the [[Calvinist]] party at four [[Dutch gulden|florins]] a day to watch the proceedings.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=850}} He was adviser to [[Johannes Bogerman]], the synod's president.<ref>W. B. Patterson, ''King James VI and I and the Reunion of Christendom'' (1997), p. 279.</ref>