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William Twisse

1577–1646

Westminster's first Prolocutor; the most learned supralapsarian of his generation.

The Supralapsarians

Biography

Trained at New College Oxford under John Rainolds, Twisse spent the 1620s and 1630s in pastoral and polemical labours at Newbury, defending Calvinist orthodoxy against Arminius, Vorstius, Jackson, and (in three vast Latin folios) the Jesuit Jacobus Acontius. As Prolocutor he opened the Assembly on 1 July 1643 with a sermon on John 14:18. He was infirm by then and presided more as figurehead than driver, leaving the chair's work to the Assessors; he died in July 1646 just as the Confession was being completed.

Principal works

Role at the Assembly

Prolocutor

The Prolocutor was the Assembly's presiding officer — chairman and moderator — who put the questions, kept order, and represented the body to Parliament. William Twisse held the office from the opening in July 1643; on his death in 1646 Charles Herle was chosen to succeed him and presided through the completion of the Catechisms.

Party in 3 cruxes

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I. ✦ Scripture
Sufficiency Express-And-Good-Consequence Canon 66-Book-Protestant-Canon Authority Self-Authenticating-With-Internal-Witness Interpretation Scripture-Interprets-Scripture Necessity Necessary-After-The-Fall
II. ✠ God & Decree
Trinity Nicene-With-Filioque Order of Decrees Supralapsarian ≠ Extent of Atonement Particular Reprobation Preterition-And-Just-Condemnation Covenant of Redemption Implicit-Affirmed
III. ⊕ Covenant
Number of Covenants Bi-Covenantal Mosaic Covenant Administration-Of-Grace Children of Believers Federal-Inclusion-Paedobaptist Testamental Continuity One-Substance-Different-Administrations
IV. ☧ Christology
Natures Chalcedonian-Two-Natures Offices Prophet-Priest-King States & Descent Humiliation-And-Exaltation; No-Local-Descent Active-Obedience Imputation Active-And-Passive-Obedience-Imputed
V. ✚ Soteriology
Effectual Calling Effectual-And-Renewing Justification Ground Imputed-Righteousness-Of-Christ Saving Faith Receptive-Resting-On-Christ-Alone Perseverance Certain-For-The-Elect Assurance Attainable-But-Not-Essence-Of-Faith
VI. ⚖ Law & Sanctification
Uses of the Law Three-Uses-Affirmed Tripartite Division Moral-Judicial-Ceremonial Sabbath Lords-Day-Fourth-Commandment-Perpetual Good Works Necessary-Fruit-Not-Meritorious
VII. ☩ Ecclesiology & Worship
Polity Presbyterian-Jure-Divino Sacramental Efficacy Signs-And-Seals-Conferring-Grace-By-Spirit Regulative Principle Strict-Only-What-Commanded Censures & Synods Three-Degrees-With-Graded-Synods
VIII. ⌛ Civil & Last Things
Magistrate's Role Custos-Utriusque-Tabulae (1646) Oaths & Marriage Oaths-Lawful-Serious; Divorce-Adultery-Or-Desertion Intermediate State Immediate-Conscious-With-God-Or-Judgment Final Judgment Single-Universal-Judgment-By-Christ