Bibliography of William Ames

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Primary Sources (Latin)

Ames, William. Animadversiones in Synodalia Scripta Remonstrantivm, Quoad Articulum Primum Sub Prasidio D.D. Glielmi Amesii, Disp. XXVIII in Academia Franekerana Propugnata à Studiosis Theologiæ. Videricus Balck, 1629. *Later published and expanded under the title Anti-synodalia scripta. *See Opera, vol. 4. *There is no translation in English of this work.

  • *Critical Remarks on the Synodal Writings of the Remonstrants, Concerning the First Article, under the presidency of the Reverend Doctor William Ames, the 28th Disputation defended in the Academy of Franeker by Students of Theology.
  • *Later published and expanded under the title Anti-Synodal Writings, or Observations on Those Doctrinal Matters Which the Remonstrants Presented at the Synod of Dort and Later Published

———. Bellarminus Eneruatus, Siue Disputationes Anti-Bellarminianæ in Illustri Frisiorum Academia, Quæ Est Franckerae, Publice Habitæ a Guilielmo Amesio, Theologiæ Doctore. In Quatuor Tomos Divisus. Amsterdam: Joannes Jansonius, 1630. *See Opera, vol. 3. *There is no translation in English of this work.

  • *Bellarmine Unnerved, or Anti-Bellarminian Disputations Publicly Held at the Illustrious Academy of the Frisians, Which is at Franeker, by William Ames, Doctor of Theology. Divided into Four Volumes.

———. Christiana Catecheseoos Sciagraphia, Ubi Sub S. Scripturae Textu Apposito, Singulae Dominicae Catech. Reformatae Breviter … et Perspicue Enodantur et Suis Documentis. Amsterdam: Joannes Jansonius, 1635. *See Opera, vol. 1, part 2

  • *An Outline of Christian Catechesis, in which, beneath the appended text of Holy Scripture, each Lord’s Day of the Reformed Catechism is briefly and clearly explained and illustrated with appropriate testimonies

———. Coronis Ad Collationem Hagiensem qua Argumenta Pastorum Hollandiæ Adversus Remonstrantium Quinque Articulos de Divinâ Prædestinatione, & Capitibus Ei Adnexis, Producta, Ab Horum Exceptionibus Vindicantur. Leiden: Elzevir, 1618. *See Opera, vol. 4. *There is no translation in English of this work.

  • *A Conclusion to the Hague Conference, in which the Arguments of the Pastors of Holland against the Five Articles of the Remonstrants concerning Divine Predestination and the Related Doctrines are Vindicated from Their Objections.

———. De Arminii Sententia qua Electionem Omnem Particularem, Fidei Praevisae Docet Inniti, Disceptatio Scholastica. Amsterdam: Joannes Jansonius, 1658. *See Opera, vol. 5, part 1. *There is no translation in English of this work.

  • *A Scholastic Disputation on the Opinion of Arminius, by Which He Teaches That All Particular Election Depends on Foreseen Faith

———. De Circulo Pontificio: Item Ejusdem Disquisitiones Theologicae. Amsterdam: Joannes Jansonius, 1633. *See Opera, vol. 5. *There is no translation in English of this work.

  • *On the Papal Circle: Also His Theological Disquisitions

———. De Conscientia et Eius Iure, Vel Casibus, Libri Quinque. Amsterdam: Joannes Jansonius, 1630. *See Opera, vol. 2

  • *On Conscience and Its Authority, or Cases of Conscience, in Five Books

———. Disputatio Inavgvralis, Continens Theses de Conscientia. Fredericus Heynsius, 1622. *There is no translation in English of this work.

  • *Inaugural Disputation, Containing Theses on Conscience

———. “Disquisitiones Theologicas de Lumine Naturae & Gratiae, Praeparatione Peccatoris Ad Conversionem, & Adoratione Christi Mediatoris.” In Opera Quae Latine Scripsit, in Quiqeue Volumina Distribute, Vol. 5. Amsterdam: Joannes Jansonius, 1658. *Translated by Gibbs in Philosophical and Theological Treatises of William Ames. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2013.

  • *Theological Disquisitions on the Light of Nature and Grace, the Preparation of the Sinner for Conversion, and the Adoration of Christ the Mediator.

———. Dissertatio Theologica de Duabus Quastionibus Hoc Tempore Controversis. M. Sebastiani, 1615. *There is no translation in English of this work.

  • *Theological Dissertation on Two Questions Controversial at This Time

———. “Estei Orationem de Certitudine Salutis.” In Opera Quae Latine Scripsit, in Quiqeue Volumina Distribute, Vol. 5. Amsterdam: Joannes Jansonius, 1658. *There is no translation in English of this work.

  • *A Solemn Oration on the Certainty of Salvation

———. Inquisitio in Variantes Theologorum Quorundam Sententias de Sabbato et Die Dominico. Frankfurt: Fredericus Heynsius, 1633. *See Opera, vol. 4. *There is no translation in English of this work.

  • *An Inquiry into the Diverging Opinions of Certain Theologians on the Sabbath and the Lord’s Day

———. Lectiones in CL Psalmos Davidis. Joannes Jansonius, 1635. *See Opera, vol. 1, part 1. *There is no translation in English of this work.

  • *Lectures on 150 Psalms of David

———. Medulla Theologica. Joannes Jansonius, 1628. *See Opera, vol. 2

  • *The Marrow of Theology

———. “Parkeri Disputationem de Traductione Peccatoris Ad Vitam.” In Opera Quae Latine Scripsit, in Quiqeue Volumina Distribute, Vol. 5. Amsterdam: Joannes Jansonius, 1658. *There is no translation in English of this work.

  • *Parker’s Disputation on the Translation of the Sinner to Life

———. Philosophemata. Justus Livius, 1643. *See Opera, vol. 5. *see Technometry: Translated With Introduction and Commentary. Translated by Lee W. Gibbs. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979 as well as Philosophical and Theological Treatises of William Ames. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2013.

  • Technometria duplici methodo adornata, cui jure cognationis nunc adjunguntur, ejusdem [Technometry, Set Forth in a Twofold Method, to Which Are Now Rightly Joined by Kinship:]
  • Adversus Metaphysicam [Against Metaphysics]
  • Atque Ethicam [And Against Ethics]
  • Logicae Verae demonstratio & adumbratio, ac, quae prius non editae [A Demonstration and Outline of True Logic, and]
  • Logicae Theses, res ejusdem artis ordine enucleantes [Previously Unpublished Logical Theses, Expounding the Matters of This Same Art in Order]

———, and William Bradshaw. Puritanismus Anglicanus, Sive Precipua Dogmata Eorum, Qui Inter Vulgo Dictos Puritanos in Anglia, Rigidiores Habentur. Frankfurt: Aubrius, 1610. *See Opera, vol. 2 **According to Keith L. Sprunger, Trumpets from the Tower (Brill, 1994), p. 219, William Ames wrote the preface and this was likely published in the Netherlands not Frankfurt. See also Oxford DNB. *Translated by Gibbs in Philosophical and Theological Treatises of William Ames. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2013.

  • *Anglican Puritanism, or the Chief Doctrines of Those Who Are Considered the More Rigid Among the So-Called Puritans in England

———. Rescriptio Scholastica & Brevis Ad Nic. Grevinchovii Responsum Illud Prolixum, Quod Opposuit Dissertationi de Redemptione Generali. G. Brewsterum, 1617. *See Opera, vol. 5, part 1. *There is no translation in English of this work.

———. Utriusque Epistola Divi Petri Apostoli Explicatio Analytica. Joannes Jansonius, 1635. *See Opera, vol. 1, part 2

  • *An Analytical Explanation of Both Epistles of the Holy Apostle Peter

Opera

Ames, William. Opera Quae Latine Scripsit, in Quiqeue Volumina Distribute. Vol. 1, part 1. Amsterdam: Joannes Jansonius, 1658.

  • Praefatione Introductoria Matthiae Netheni
  • Commentaria in Psalmos

———. Opera Quae Latine Scripsit, in Quiqeue Volumina Distribute. Vol. 1, part 2. Joannes Jansonius, 1663.

  • Commentaria in utramque Epistolam Petri
  • Sciagraphiam Catechesos.

———. Opera Quae Latine Scripsit, in Quiqeue Volumina Distribute. Vol. 2. Amsterdam: Joannes Jansonius, 1659.

  • Medullam 
  • Theologiae, Casuo Conscientiae
  • Puritanismum Anglicanum
  • Eatoni Tractat de Amesii Sententia de Sabbatho & Die Dominico.

———. Opera Quae Latine Scripsit, in Quiqeue Volumina Distribute. Vol. 3. Amsterdam: Joannes Jansonius, 1658.

  • Bellarminum Enervatum in 4. Tomos

———. Opera Quae Latine Scripsit, in Quiqeue Volumina Distribute. Vol. 4. Amsterdam: Joannes Jansonius, n.d. [Please share a link if found.]

  • Coronidem ad Collationem Hagiensem
  • Anti-Synodalia

———. Opera Quae Latine Scripsit, in Quiqeue Volumina Distribute. Vol. 5, part 1. Amsterdam: Joannes Jansonius, 1658.

  • De Arminii Sententia
  • Rescriptionem Scholasticam ad N. Grevinchovii

———. Opera Quae Latine Scripsit, in Quiqeue Volumina Distribute. Vol. 5, part 2? Amsterdam: Joannes Jansonius, n.d. [Please share a link if found.]

  • Disceptationem Scholasticam de Circulo Pontificio non acquiescunt
  • Disquisitiones Theologicas de Lumine Naturae & Gratiae, Praeparatione Peccatoris ad Conversionem, & Adoratione Christi Mediatoris
  • Estei Orationem de certitudine salutis
  • Parkeri disputationem de Traductione peccatoris ad vitam
  • Philosophemata

Primary Sources (English)

Ames, William. A Fresh Suit Against Human Ceremonies in God’s Worship, 1633.

———. A Reply to Dr. Mortons Particular Defence of Three Nocent Ceremonies. Viz. The Surplice, Crosse in Baptisme, and Kneeling at the Receiving of the Sacramentall Elements of Bread and Wine. Amsterdam: Successors of Giles Thorp, 1623.

———. A Second Manuduction for Mr. Robinson, Or a Confirmation of the Former, in an Answer to His Manumission. Amsterdam?, 1615.

———. A Sketch of the Christian’s Catechism. Translated by Todd M. Rester and Joel Beeke. Grand Rapids: Reformation Heritage Books, 2008.

———. An Analyticall Exposition of Both the Epistles of the Apostle Peter, Illustrated by Doctrines out of Every Text. And Applyed for Their Uses, for a Further Progresse in Holinesse. London: John Rothwell, 1641.

———. Conscience with the Power and Cases Thereof. London, 1639.

———. The Marrow of Sacred Divinity, Drawne out of the Holy Scriptures. London: Edward Griffin, 1639.

———. The Marrow of Theology. Edited by John D. Eusden. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1997.

———. The Substance of Christian Religion: Or, A Plain and Easie Draught of the Christian Catechisme. London: T. Mabb, 1659.

———, and Lee W. Gibbs. Technometry: Translated With Introduction and Commentary. Translated by Lee W. Gibbs. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979.

———, and Lee W. Gibbs. Philosophical and Theological Treatises of William Ames. Translated by Lee W. Gibbs. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2013.

Primary Sources (Dutch pamphlets)

*There are no translations into English of these works.

Ames, William. De Misslagen En Valscheden Wederleydt, Die Gevonden Zijn in de Extracten Uyt de Schriften van Jacob Adriaensz van Oudts Genaemt Mr. Jans. Tegen Een Volck Quakers Genaemt, Welcke Onschuldigh Zijn van ’t Gene Hy Haer Oplegt. Mede (Een Extract Uyt) James Naylors Bekentenis. Amsterdam, 1661.

  • *The Errors and Falsehoods Refuted: Found in extracts from the writings of Jacob Adriaensz, formerly known as Mr. Jans, against a group called Quakers, who are innocent of what he accuses them of. Also (an extract from) James Naylor’s confession [27 pages]

———. De Valsche Propheten Bekent Aen Haere Vrughten Ofte Een Ontdekkinge van … Sommige van Deese Leeraers, Genaemt Gereformeerde, Met Een Antwoort Op Sommige Dwaalingen Uitgesprooken Door Een Priester of Prediker, Simon Simonides. Ook Een Weinig Woorden Tot Ontdekkinge van de Priesters van Der…, 1659.

  • *The False Prophets Known by Their Fruits: Or, a revelation of some of these teachers, called Reformed, with a reply to some errors expressed by a priest or preacher, Simon Simonides. Also a few words exposing the priests of the… [57 pages]

———. De Verborgentheden van Het Rijcke Godts, Ende de Werckinge, … En Bestieringe van Godts Geest Verklaert, in Tegenstellinge van de … Oeffeningen Voorgestelt … Door Galenus Abrahamsz. Amsterdam, 1661.

  • *The Mysteries of the Kingdom of God, and the Working and Governance of God’s Spirit Explained, in contrast to the practices proposed by Galenus Abrahamsz [31 pages]

———. Den Antichrist Ontdeckt, Ende Bloot Gemaekt, Ofte Een Antwoort Tot 3. Pasquillen Uitgegeven Sonder de Naem Des Instruments … Genaemt, 1. De Duyvel Verandert in Een Quaker. 2. Een Spiegel Voor de Quaekers. 3. Het Tonneel Der Geestdrivers, n.d.

  • *The Antichrist Uncovered and Exposed: Or, a reply to three pamphlets issued without the name of the author… titled: 1. The Devil Turned Quaker, 2. A Mirror for the Quakers, 3. The Theater of Spirit-Drivers… [15 pages]

———. Een Declaratie, Verklaringe, of Aanwysinge van de Getuyge Gods, in ’s Menschen Inwendige Deelen. Rotterdam: Jacob Claus, 1675.

  • *Declaration, Explanation, or Indication of the Witness of God in the Inner Parts of Man [14 pages]

———. Een Ernstige Berispinge, Aen de Leeraers van de Vlaemsche Doops-Gesinde Gemeinte, … Levende in Twist Ende Nijt, … Door Eene, de Welcke Eenige Jaren Onder Haer Gheweest Heeft. Amsterdam, 1660.

  • *A Serious Rebuke to the Teachers of the Flemish Mennonite Congregation: … living in strife and envy … by one who had been among them for some years [16 pages]

———. Een Geklank Uyt Sion, Den Heyligen Bergh … Uyt Het Engels Overgeset. Pieter van Wijnbrugge, 1675.

  • *A Sound from Zion, the Holy Mountain… Translated from English [18 pages]

———. Een Getuygenis van Den Wegh Des Levens, Tot Die Gene, Die Daar Na Hongeren … Met Een Berispinge Aen Die Gene, Die Haar Selven Belyden Dienaars Christi Te Zijn, En Evenwel de Menschen Niet En Wysen Tot Desen Weg. Amsterdam: Jacob Claus, 1677.

  • *A Testimony of the Way of Life: To those who hunger for it… With a rebuke to those who profess to be ministers of Christ and yet do not show people the way [38 pages]

———. Het Ligt Dat in de Duisternisse Schijnt, Beweesen Den Weg Tot God Te Sijn. In Een Wederlegginge Op Een Antwoort Op Eenige Aenmerkingen, Die Uitgegeven Waeren Door John Higgins, Maer Beantwoort Waeren Door Petrus Serarius. Met Een Antwoord Op Iets in de Eerste Ende Tweede Pagina van Een Boek. Amsterdam, 1660.

  • *The Light That Shines in the Darkness, Proven to Be the Way to God: A refutation of a reply to some remarks issued by John Higgins but answered by Petrus Serrarius. With a reply to items in the first and second pages of a book… [26 pages]

Secondary Sources (Books)

Ames, William. Technometry: Translated With Introduction and Commentary. Translated by Lee W. Gibbs. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1979.

Ames, William, and Lee W. Gibbs. Philosophical and Theological Treatises of William Ames. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2013.

Grevenchoven, Nicolaas. Grevenchoven, Nicolaas-Dissertatio Theologica de Duabus Quaestionibus … Quarum Prima Est de Reconciliatione per Mortem Christi Impetrata … Hominibus ; Altera de Electione Ex Fide Praevisa. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Mathias Sebastiani, 1615. *There is no translation in English of this work.

Nethenus, Matthias, Hugo Visscher, and Karl Reuter. William Ames. Translated by Douglas Horton. Cambridge: Harvard Divinity School Library, 1965.

  • Contains translations of Matthew Nethenus’ Praefatio Introductoria of Vol. 1 of the Opera,
  • Hugo Visscher’s doctoral thesis “Guilielmus Amesius: Zijn Leven en Werken,”
  • and Karl Reuter’s Wilhelm Amesius, Der führende Theologe des erwachsenden reformierten Pietismus.

Sprunger, Keith L. The Learned Doctor William Ames. Eugene: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 1972.

———. Trumpets from the Tower: English Puritan Printing in the Netherlands 1600-1640. Leiden: Brill, 1994.

Vliet, Jan van. The Rise of Reformed System: The Intellectual Heritage of William Ames. Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2013. *This is a publication of his doctoral thesis, mentioned below.

———. “William Ames: Marrow of the Theology and Piety of the Reformed Tradition.” Westminster Theological Seminary, 2002.

Yagi, Takayuki. A Gift from England: William Ames and His Polemical Discourse against Dutch Arminianism. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2020.

Secondary Sources (Articles & Chapters)

Boughton, Lynne Courter. “Choice and Action: William Ames’s Concept of the Mind’s Operation in Moral Decisions.” Church History 56, no. 2 (1987): 188–203. https://doi.org/10.2307/3165502.

Davis, James Calvin. “William Ames’s Calvinist Ambiguity Over Freedom of Conscience.” The Journal of Religious Ethics 33, no. 2 (2005): 335–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9795.2005.00194.x.

Foster, Frank Hugh. “The History of the Original Puritan Theology of New England, 1620-1720.” The American Journal of Theology 1, no. 3 (1897): 700–727. https://doi.org/10.1086/476651.

George, Timothy. “Predestination in a Separatist Context: The Case of John Robinson.” The Sixteenth Century Journal 15, no. 1 (1984): 73–85. https://doi.org/10.2307/2540840.

Gibbs, Lee W. “The Puritan Natural Law Theory of William Ames.” The Harvard Theological Review 64, no. 1 (1971): 37–57. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017816000018022.

———. “William Ames’s Technometry.” Journal of the History of Ideas 33, no. 4 (1972): 615–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/2708860.

Goswami, Niranjan. “Peter Ramus, William Ames and the New England Way: Investigations into Theologia Timocratica.” In Anthropological Reformations: Anthropology in the Era of Reformation, edited by Anne Eusterschulte and Hannah Wälzholz, 403–14. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015. https://doi.org/10.13109/9783666550584.403.

Greaves, Richard L. “The Puritan-Nonconformist Tradition in England, 1560-1700: Historiographical Reflections.” Albion (Boone) 17, no. 4 (1985): 449–86. https://doi.org/10.2307/4049433.

Hancock, C. Layne. “Edwards’ Copy of William Ames’ Medulla Theologicae ‘Found.’” Jonathan Edwards Studies 7, no. 1 (2017): 55–61.

Hutchins, Zachary McLeod. “Building Bensalem at Massachusetts Bay: Francis Bacon and the Wisdom of Eden in Early Modern New England.” The New England Quarterly 83, no. 4 (2010): 577–606. https://doi.org/10.1162/TNEQ_a_00044.

Jones, Charles E. “Congregation, Magistrate, and King: A Puritan Pattern for the Church of England.” A Journal of Church and State 6, no. 3 (1964): 288–95. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/6.3.288.

Koopman, Bert. “Preparatory Work: Rejected at the Front Door, Stealthily Admitted through the Back Door.” In A Landmark in Turbulent Times. The Meaning and Relevance of the Synod of Dordt (1618-1619), 199–210. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022.

Kristanto, Billy. “William Ames and His Contribution to Evangelical Theology.” Evangelical Review of Theology 39, no. 4 (2015): 343–55.

Longaker, Mark Garrett. “Idealism and Early-American Rhetoric.” Rhetoric Society Quarterly 36, no. 3 (2006): 281–308. https://doi.org/10.1080/02773940500511587.

McKim, Donald K. “The Functions of Ramism in William Perkins’ Theology.” The Sixteenth Century Journal 16, no. 4 (1985): 503–17. https://doi.org/10.2307/2541223.

Mosse, George L. “Puritan Political Thought and the ‘Cases of Conscience.’” Church History 23, no. 2 (1954): 109–18. https://doi.org/10.2307/3161483.

———. “The Assimilation of Machiavelli in English Thought: The Casuistry of William Perkins and William Ames.” The Huntington Library Quarterly 17, no. 4 (1954): 315–26. https://doi.org/10.2307/3816499.

Muller, Richard A. “Calvinist Thomism Revisited: William Ames (1576–1633) and the Divine Ideas.” In From Rome to Zurich, between Ignatius and Vermigli, 103–20. Brill, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004331778_009.

Nijenhuis, W. “Resolutions of Dutch Church Assemblies Concerning English Ministers in the Hague 1633-1651” Nederlandsch Archief Voor Kerkgeschiedenis 62, no. 1 (1982): 77–101. https://doi.org/10.1163/002820382X00050.

Perrin, Porter G. “Possible Sources of Technologia at Early Harvard.” The New England Quarterly 7, no. 4 (1934): 718–24. https://doi.org/10.2307/359194.

Perry, Michael J. “Freedom of Conscience as Religious and Moral Freedom.” The Journal of Law and Religion 29, no. 1 (2014): 124–41. https://doi.org/10.1017/jlr.2013.1.

Sinnema, Donald. “Reformed Scholasticism and the Synod of Dort (1618-19).” In John Calvin’s Institutes: His Opus Magnum, 467–506. Potchefstroom: Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education, 1986.

———. “The Attempt to Establish a Chair in Practical Theology at Leiden University (1618–1626).” In Studies in Honor of Richard A. Muller on the Maturation of a Theological Tradition, 415–41. Brill, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004258297_032.

———. “The First Edition of William Ames’s Medulla Sacrae Theologiae (1623) as a Disputation Cycle.” Calvin Theological Journal 58, no. 2 (2023): 233–64.

Sprunger, Keith L. “Ames, Ramus, and the Method of Puritan Theology.” The Harvard Theological Review 59, no. 2 (1966): 133–51. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017816000009640.

———. “Archbishop Laud’s Campaign Against Puritanism at The Hague.” Church History 44, no. 3 (1975): 308–20. https://doi.org/10.2307/3164033.

———. “English and Dutch Sabbatarianism and the Development of Puritan Social Theology (1600–1660).” Church History 51, no. 1 (1982): 24–38. https://doi.org/10.2307/3165251.

———. “Puritan Church Architecture and Worship in a Dutch Context.” Church History 66, no. 1 (1997): 36–53. https://doi.org/10.2307/3169631.

———. “Technometria: A Prologue to Puritan Theology.” Journal of the History of Ideas 29, no. 1 (1968): 115–22. https://doi.org/10.2307/2708469.

———. “William Ames and the Settlement of Massachusetts Bay.” The New England Quarterly 39, no. 1 (1966): 66–79. https://doi.org/10.2307/363642.

Sprunger, Keith L, and Mary Sprunger. “The Church in the Bakehouse: John Smyth’s English Anabaptist Congregation at Amsterdam, 1609-1660.” The Mennonite Quarterly Review 85, no. 2 (2011): 219–58.

Stanton, Allen. “William Ames and the Westminster Assembly.” The Confessional Presbyterian 14 (2018): 51–62.

Towner, Lawrence W. “The Sewall-Saffin Dialogue on Slavery.” The William and Mary Quarterly 21, no. 1 (1964): 40–52. https://doi.org/10.2307/1923355.

Tyacke, Nicholas. “Revolutionary Puritanism in Anglo-American Perspective.” The Huntington Library Quarterly 78, no. 4 (2015): 745–69. https://doi.org/10.1353/hlq.2015.0023.

Urban, David V. “John Milton, Paradox, and the Atonement: Heresy, Orthodoxy, and the Son’s Whole-Life Obedience.” Studies in Philology 112, no. 4 (2015): 817–36. https://doi.org/10.1353/sip.2015.0030.

Vliet, Jan van. “Decretal Theology and the Development of Covenant Thought: An Assessment of Cornelis Graafland’s Thesis With a Particular View to Federal Architects William Ames and Johannes Cocceius.” The Westminster Theological Journal 63, no. 2 (2001): 393–420.

———. “Engaging the Mental Wars of Our Times.” Pro Rege 43, no. 1 (September 2014): 10–18.

———. “Experiencing Our Only Comfort: A Post-Reformation Refocus in the Heidelberg Catechism.” Puritan Reformed Journal 6, no. 2 (2014): 149–70.

Young, Ralph F. “Breathing the ‘Free Aire of the New World’: The Influence of the New England Way on the Gathering of Congregational Churches in Old England, 1640–1660.” The New England Quarterly 83, no. 1 (2010): 5–46. https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq.2010.83.1.5.

Yu, Esther. “Tears in Paradise: The Revolution of Tender Conscience.” Representations 142, no. Spring (2018): 1–32.

Secondary Sources (Other Languages)

Mihály, Hazagh: Amesius és a magyar puritánizmus, in: Angol Filológiai Tanulmányok 4, 1942, 94-112. *He explains that Ames was the father of Hungarian Puritanism.

Dóczy, Örs: Puritanismul Amesian […], in: Apulum: Acta Musei Apulensis 60, 2023, 23-33.