Editing William Ames (section)

==Academic==

A proposal to make him principal of a [[theological]] college at Leiden was frustrated by [[Archbishop George Abbot|Archbishop Abbot]]; and when later invited by the state of [[Friesland]] to a professoriate at [[Franeker]], the opposition was renewed, but this time abortively. 
He was installed at Franeker on 7 May 1622 and delivered a discourse on the occasion on ''[[Urim and Thummim]]''. 
He brought renown to Franeker as professor, preacher, pastor and theological writer;{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|pp=850–851}} one student of the period influenced by Ames was [[Johannes Cocceius]].<ref>Jan Rohls, ''Reformed Confessions: Theology from Zurich to Barmen'' (1998 translation), p. 25.</ref> 
Another student was [[Nathaniel Eaton]], later of [[Harvard College]].<ref>Francis J. Bremer, Tom Webster, ''Puritans and Puritanism in Europe and America: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia'' (2006), p. 83.</ref>

He prepared his ''Medulla Theologiae'' (The Marrow of Theology), a manual of Calvinistic doctrine, for his students. Ames was much influenced in terms of method by [[Ramism]], and opposed the residual teaching of [[Aristotle]].<ref>Willem Frijhoff, Marijke Spies, ''Dutch Culture in a European Perspective'' (2004), p. 286-7.</ref> His ''De Conscientia, ejus Jure et Casibus'' (1632), an attempt to bring Christian ethics into clear relation with particular cases of conduct and of conscience, was a new thing in [[Protestantism]].{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=851}}