William Twisse

William Twisse (1578 near Newbury, England – 20 July 1646) was a prominent English clergyman and theologian. He was named Prolocutor of the Westminster Assembly in an Ordinance dated 12 June 1643,[1] putting him at the head of the churchmen of the Commonwealth. He was described by a Scottish member, Robert Baillie, as "very good, beloved of all, and highlie esteemed; but merelie bookish".[2]

Life

Twisse's parents were German.[3] He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford.[4]

He was appointed chaplain to Elizabeth of Bohemia, by her father James I of England, in 1612. This position was short-lived, and he returned to England from Heidelberg around 1613.

He was then given a living at Newton Longueville.[5] He was involved with Henry Savile in the 1618 edition of the works of Thomas Bradwardine.[6] He was vicar of Newbury from 1620.[7] There he was known as an opponent of William Laud.[8]

He died on 20 July 1646 and was buried in Westminster Abbey, but exhumed in 1661 and his remains deposited with those of dozens of other Parliamentarians in a pit in the churchyard of St Margaret's, Westminster.

Views

Twisse was a strong defender of a Calvinist, supralapsarian position.[9] In his Vindiciae gratiae of 1632 he attacked Jacobus Arminius, and in Dissertatio de scientia media of 1639 adopted certain Dominican arguments,[6] on predestination. His views were in a minority at the Westminster Assembly.[10]

A premillennialist,[11] he wrote a preface to the 1643 English translation, Key of the Revelation, of Joseph Mede's influential Clavis Apocalyptica. Mede was a friend and correspondent.[12]

Works

  • A Discovery of D. Jackson's Vanity (1631) against Thomas Jackson
  • Vindiciae Gratiae (Amsterdam, 1632)
  • Dissertatio de scientia media tribus libris absoluta (Arnhem 1639)
  • The Riches of Gods Love (1653),[13] with Henry Jeanes and John Goodwin
  • An Examination of Mr. Cotton's Analysis of The Ninth Chapter of Romans[14]
  • The Five Points of Grace and of Predestination[15]
  • Of the Morality of the Fourth Commandment
  • A Treatise of Mr. Cotton's Clearing Certaine Doubts Concerning Predestination
  • The Doctrine of the Synod of Dort and Arles, Reduced to the Practice (1650)
  • Of the morality of the Fourth Commandment, as still in force to binde Christians : delivered by way of answer to the translator of Doctor Prideaux his lecture, concerning the doctrine of the Sabbath (1641) OL 14032019M

See also

References

  1. ↑ June 1643: An Ordinance for the calling of an Assembly of Learned and Godly Divines, to be consulted with by the Parliament, for the setling of the Government of the Church
  2. ↑ Description of the Westminster Assembly – Robert Baillie. Reformation Scotland. Retrieved on 2012-07-10.
  3. ↑ "William Twisse". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 15 July 2007.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link). Ligonier Ministries. ligonier.org
  4. ↑ The Life and Work of William Twisse – Presbyterian Reformed Church Archived 23 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine. Presbyterianreformed.org. Retrieved on 2012-07-10.
  5. ↑ Rectors of the Parish Church of St Faith, Newton Longville Archived 28 December 2006 at the Wayback Machine. Met.open.ac.uk (2001-01-06). Retrieved on 2012-07-10.
  6. 1 2 William Twisse. Scholasticon (in French).
  7. ↑ "Twisse, William" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900. ; Archived 29 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine.
  8. ↑ Newbury in the first of the Civil Wars in England Archived 1 March 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Newbury-society.org.uk. Retrieved on 2012-07-10.
  9. ↑ (in Japanese) John Milton: Supralapsarians, Sublapsarians, and the Incompetence of God
  10. ↑ Report on Justification, presented to the Seventy-third General Assembly of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Committee on Christian Education Orthodox Presbyterian Church, p. 71.
  11. ↑ Reformed Theology and Premillennialism. Theologue.org. Retrieved on 2012-07-10.
  12. ↑ Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra | AHR Forum: Entangled Histories: Borderland Historiographies in New Clothes? | The American Historical Review, 112.3. The History Cooperative. Retrieved on 2012-07-10.
  13. ↑ William Twisse; Henry Jeanes; John Goodwin (1653) The riches of Gods love unto the vessells of mercy, consistent with his absolute hatred or reprobation of the vessells of wrath, or, An answer unto a book entituled, Gods love unto mankind ... . Oxford : Printed by L.L. and H.H.
  14. ↑ William Twisse, A short Survey of the ninth Chapter to the Romans, so farre as it treateth of the Doctrine Of Predestination. Truecovenanter.com. Retrieved on 2012-07-10.
  15. ↑ William Twisse, THE FIVE POINTS of Grace & of Predestination Defined and Defended Against an Arminian Remonstrant. 5solas.org. Retrieved on 2012-07-10.

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