William Twisse

William Twisse

William Twisse (1578 - 1646) was a prominent English Puritan and theologian. He received his education at New College, Oxford earning his BA (1600), MA (1604), and DD (1614). After several pastorates and teaching positions as chaplain and university professor, he was appointed prolocutor of the Westminster Assembly of Divines (1643). He was a Calvinist of the supralapsarian school and considered "a learned and speculative genius." He distinguished himself by his writings against Arminianism -- In English is the posthumously published Folio, The Riches of God’s Love unto the Vessels of Mercy, consistent with his absolute Hatred or Reprobation of the Vessels of Wrath, Oxford, 1653.

Resources

• The Life and Work of William Twisse by the Presbyterian Reformed Church
• William Twisse in Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
• William Twisse in Lives of the Puritans (1813) at Google books